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Unilateral recurrent acute idiopathic maculopathy

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Abstract

Background

To report a patient with repeated recurrence of unilateral acute idiopathic maculopathy (UAIM) at the same site of the eye.

Methods

A 27-year-old female with UAIM in the left eye was followed up and examined by fundus photography and optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Results

The clinical features of the maculopathy at first presentation were compatible with UAIM. The maculopathy recurred twice at the same site of the eye during the 20-month follow-up. After three episodes of the disease, best corrected visual acuity decreased from 20/20 to 20/33, and discontinuity of IS/OS in the macular area was observed by OCT.

Conclusions

We report a patient with UAIM occurring three times at the same site of the eye. To our knowledge, the feature of recurrence of UAIM has not been reported.

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  1. The State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Shandong Eye Institute, 5 Yanerdao Road, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Haifeng Xu & Ping Lin

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Xu, H., Lin, P. Unilateral recurrent acute idiopathic maculopathy. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 249, 941–944 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-010-1589-1

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