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Bilateral angle closure glaucoma: an unusual presentation of Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada syndrome
  1. MAYA EIBSCHITZ-TSIMHONI,
  2. YUVAL A GELFAND,
  3. EEDY MEZER,
  4. BENJAMIN MILLER
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Rambam Medical Center and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  1. Dr Y A Gelfand, Department of Ophthalmology, Rambam Medical Center, POB 9602, 31096 Haifa, Israel.

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Editor,—Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) syndrome is a bilateral, diffuse, granulomatous uveitis associated with exudative retinal detachment and central nervous system, auditory, and dermatological involvement.1 It is a common cause of uveitis in Japan and, to a lesser extent, in parts of Latin America and the USA.

We report a case of VKH syndrome with an unusual presentation of bilateral secondary acute angle closure glaucoma (SAACG). Because of the rarity of this presentation of VKH syndrome (this being the first report, to our knowledge, of such a presentation outside the USA and Japan) we initially had difficulties in diagnosing and treating it in the optimal way. We thus stress the importance of clinicians being aware of such a VKH syndrome presentation, especially in those parts of the world where the disease is rare.

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