Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy, rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and postoperative uveitis with massive subretinal exudation
Okubo, Y.; Okubo, A.; Kubono, T.; Shimizu, H.
Nippon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi 88(8): 1151-1156
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-0203 PMID: 6507194 Document Number: 227186
A family has 3 patients of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy is reported. One patient, a boy of 16 yr of age, suffered from a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment on his left eye. The disease was successfully treated with a scleral bucking with circling element. Three months after the operation, the patient developed a kind of panuveitis bilaterally. The uveitis was accompanied with massive subretinal fluid and a rubeosis iridis on his left eye. No retinal break was found which was not sealed, therefore the detachment was thought to be a symptomatic one at that time. The uveitis responded quite well to a treatment with massive systemic steroid and the subretinal fluid was gradually absorbed. This unusual course following the operation of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment might be a peculiar phenomena to a patient with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy and is important to be recognized, else it might be misdiagnosed as a recurrence of the rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.