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Vascular occlusion in serpiginous choroidopathy
  1. E Baglivo1,
  2. S Boudjema1,
  3. C Pieh1,
  4. A B Safran1,
  5. C Chizzolini2,
  6. C Herbort3,
  7. N Rao4
  1. 1Clinique d’Ophtalmologie-Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Rue Alcide-Jentzer, 22-CH 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
  2. 2Département d’immunologie clinique-Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Rue Micheli du Crest-CH 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
  3. 3Clinique de la Source. Avenue des Bergières, Lausanne, Switzerland
  4. 4Doheny Eye Institute. University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  1. Correspondence to: Edoardo Baglivo Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Clinique d’Ophtalmologie-Uveitis Department, rue Alcide-Jentzer, 22, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland; Edoardo.Baglivohcuge.ch

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.2004.052126

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    Serpiginous choroidopathy (SC) is a rare disease inducing a permanent loss of vision, caused by a progressive destruction of the retinal pigment epithelium and choriocapillaris. Until now, no aetiology or predisposing factors have been reported. SC, usually, affects both eyes and occurs in patients between the fourth and sixth decade, without any sex or race predilection. Clinically, deep cream-coloured lesions develop in the peripapillary region and then along the retinal vessels, centrifugally, inducing an atrophy of the retina. Other lesions may develop, isolated, in the posterior segment. The anterior segment is typically quiet; nevertheless, a mild anterior uveitis and/or vitritis have been observed. The course of the disease results in successive attacks and recurrences inducing permanent retinal atrophic changes and subsequently an irreversible loss of vision. Choroidal neovascularisation may occasionally develop. No specific diagnostic tests are available such that the diagnosis of SC is mostly clinical.1

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