Disease relevance of Choroiditis

• Older MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr mice develop significant inflammatory ocular disease, including choroiditis, scleritis, and orbital vasculitis [1].
• Juxtapapillary choroiditis was seen in three, including one who demonstrated retinal infiltrates, telangiectatic capillary change, and macular edema on fluorescein angiography [2].
• Differentiation between presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome and multifocal choroiditis with panuveitis based on morphology of photographed fundus lesions and fluorescein angiography [3].
• RESULTS: Choroidal neovascular membranes were removed at 3 days (presumed ocular histoplasmosis), 29 days (punctate inner choroiditis), 63 days (AMD, pathologic myopia), 66 days (AMD), 107 days (pathologic myopia), 116 days (AMD), and 152 days (idiopathic) after verteporfin ocular photodynamic therapy [4].
• Indocyanine green-mediated photothrombosis combined with intravitreal triamcinolone for the treatment of choroidal neovascularization in serpiginous choroiditis [5].

High impact information on Choroiditis

• Pneumocystitis carinii choroiditis in patients receiving inhaled pentamidine [6].
• Fluorescein angiography revealed a hitherto unique picture of isolated choroidal occlusions but neither a central vein occlusion nor a disseminated choroiditis [7].
• Serpiginous choroiditis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus [8].
• The study population consisted of 15 eyes (15 patients) with CNVM undergoing membrane excision (four eyes with age-related macular degeneration, seven with pathologic myopia and four with multifocal choroiditis) [9].
• Patients with a diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis but having a family history of the disease and multifocal choroiditis should be suspected of having familial juvenile systemic granulomatosis [10].

Chemical compound and disease context of Choroiditis

• Atypical central lesions in serpiginous choroiditis treated with oral prednisone [11].
• DESIGN: The clinical courses were reviewed of six consecutive patients (12 eyes) with vision-threatening, steroid-dependent/resistant serpiginous choroiditis treated with a combination of immunosuppressive agents including azathioprine, cyclosporine, and cyclophosphamide [12].
• Seven patients affected by bilateral inflammatory serpiginous choroiditis have been treated with Cyclosporine-A for 6-21 months [13].
• Intravenous pulse methylprednisolone therapy for acute treatment of serpiginous choroiditis [14].
• This study reports the case of a patient with P. carinii choroiditis who was treated with intravenous trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole, followed by intravenous trimethoprim and dapsone [15].

Biological context of Choroiditis

• CONCLUSION: In two patients with visual loss due to an atypical central lesion in serpiginous choroiditis, regression of the lesion without the development of a typical chorioretinal scar and subsequent improvement of visual acuity was achieved with the administration of oral prednisone [11].

Anatomical context of Choroiditis

• Fluorescein angiography in one eye, however, suggested that at least some of the hypofluorescence seen acutely in eyes with serpiginous choroiditis is secondary to blocked fluorescence from "opaque" retinal pigment epithelium [16].

Gene context of Choroiditis

• Choroiditis in systemic lupus erythematosus [17].
• Although the morphological picture showed features similar to central areolar choroidal dystrophy, familial bilateral macular colobomata, serpiginous choroiditis and some cases of cone dystrophy, there are clinical and electrophysiological reasons for differentiating the cases presented here from these other diseases [18].
• A 30 year old Malay male developed bilateral choroiditis followed by vitiligo, poliosis and canities [19].
• Serpiginous choroiditis and unilateral extrapyramidal dystonia [20].
• PURPOSE: To describe the management and long-term outcome of patients with serpiginous choroiditis (SPC) treated with interferon (IFN) alpha-2a [21].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Choroiditis

• A 51-year-old man and a 45-year-old man had geographic or serpiginous choroiditis and anterior uveitis as shown by ophthalmoscopy and fluorescein angiography [22].

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