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Birdshot chorioretinopathy, now commonly named birdshot uveitis or HLA-A29 uveitis, [1] is a rare form of bilateral posterior uveitis affecting both eyes. It causes severe, progressive inflammation of both the choroid and retina .
[1] [2] Eales disease, pars planitis, birdshot retinochoroidopathy (autoimmune bilateral posterior uveitis), and Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis (FHI) can also cause retinal vasculitis. [1] Infectious pathogens such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, visceral larva migrans (Toxocara canis & Toxocara cati) can also cause retinal vasculitis. [1]
In contrast, white dots appear later in the disease stages of birdshot choroidopathy, serpiginous choroiditis, and acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy. The white dots in these diseases may be present throughout the entire fundus, larger (50 to 500 μm), and tend to clump together.
Birdshot chorioretinopathy, a rare form of bilateral posterior uveitis affecting the eye. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bird shot .
Chorioretinitis is an inflammation of the choroid (thin pigmented vascular coat of the eye) and retina of the eye. It is a form of posterior uveitis.Inflammation of these layers can lead to vision-threatening complications.
Douglas Jabs is an American ophthalmologist and an expert in clinical research in the fields of ophthalmology and uveitis. [1]Jabs is currently the chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Faculty Practice Associates, dean for clinical affairs, and professor and chair of the department of ophthalmology and professor of medicine of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Recently, central serous chorioretinopathy has been understood to be part of the pachychoroid spectrum. [5] [6] In pachychoroid spectrum disorders, of which CSR represents stage II, the choroid, the highly vascularized layer below the retina, is thickened and congested with increased blood vessel diameter, especially in the deep choroid (the so-called Haller's layer).
Uveitis with poliosis of the eyelashes. The disease is characterised by bilateral diffuse uveitis, with pain, redness and blurring of vision.The eye symptoms may be accompanied by a varying constellation of systemic symptoms, such as auditory (tinnitus, [6] vertigo, [6] and hypoacusis), neurological (meningismus, with malaise, fever, headache, nausea, abdominal pain, stiffness of the neck and ...