Open AccessKyrieleis´ vasculitis in acute retinal necrosis
Author(s) -
Díaz-Llopis
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
clinical ophthalmology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.025
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1177-5483
pISSN - 1177-5467
DOI - 10.2147/opth.s11960
Subject(s) - acute retinal necrosis , medicine , retinal vasculitis , vasculitis , necrosis , presentation (obstetrics) , retinal , varicella zoster virus , ophthalmology , retinitis , pathology , virus , surgery , immunology , disease , human cytomegalovirus
We report the first case in the literature of Kyrieleis' vasculitis related to acute retinal necrosis by Varicella zoster virus in a 76-year-old woman with bilateral involvement. In our patient the arterial lesions appeared 15 days after the initial presentation.
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