Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy associated with Graves-Basedow's disease
Ruiz Viñals, A.T.; Buil Calvo, J.A.; Martínez Giralto, O.; Castilla Céspedes, M.
Archivos de la Sociedad Espanola de Oftalmologia 77(7): 381-384
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0365-6691 PMID: 12098810 Document Number: 545153
We present a case of a 40-years-old woman with an acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) associated with recent instauration hyperthyroidism symptoms. A Graves' disease was diagnosed and the patient was initially controlled with antithyroid drugs. The epitheliopathy evolution was relatively favourable without relapse. Two years later a thyroidectomy was performed. We have not found in the literature any APMPPE case associated with Graves' disease. We only found an APMPPE case associated with a subacute thyroiditis. Little is known about the APMPPE causes, it could be that placoid epitheliopathy and Graves' disease had a common autoimmune origin. We can not forget that our finding could be only a matter of chance.