Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome: A Case Report and Experience with Corticosteroid Therapy
Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS) is an inflammatory eye disease of the outer retina, retinal pigmented epithelium, choroid presenting with photopsia, loss of vision, and temporal scotoma. The patient was a 31-year-old female with a history of vision loss since 11 days ago (left eye). A...
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| description | Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS) is an inflammatory eye disease of the outer retina, retinal pigmented epithelium, choroid presenting with photopsia, loss of vision, and temporal scotoma. The patient was a 31-year-old female with a history of vision loss since 11 days ago (left eye). At presentation, best-corrected Snellen visual acuity was 20/140 in the Snellen chart. We decided to treat her with short time corticosteroid therapy (0.75 mg/kg/day prednisolone which was tapered in 3 weeks) for any possible rapid recovery of vision. The visual acuity of the involved eye was improved to 20/25 and 20/20, one week and three weeks after starting treatment respectively. Thus, it seems that short-term oral steroids might be an alternative method of management for patients with MEWDS. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-364dc1c3a7084f5aa8265fc57bb516782022-12-22T01:19:02ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesIranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology1735-15021735-52492020-05-0119S110.18502/ijaai.v19i(s1.r1).28652508Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome: A Case Report and Experience with Corticosteroid TherapyAmir Hossein Norooznezhad0Vahid Mohammadzadeh1Sakineh Kadivar2Fariba Ghassemi3School of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran AND Medical Biology Research Center, Health Technology Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, IranDepartment of Ophthalmology, Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A AND Eye Research Center, Farabi Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranEye Research Center, Amiralmomenin Eye Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, IranEye Research Center, Farabi Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AND Department of Retina, Farabi Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranMultiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS) is an inflammatory eye disease of the outer retina, retinal pigmented epithelium, choroid presenting with photopsia, loss of vision, and temporal scotoma. The patient was a 31-year-old female with a history of vision loss since 11 days ago (left eye). At presentation, best-corrected Snellen visual acuity was 20/140 in the Snellen chart. We decided to treat her with short time corticosteroid therapy (0.75 mg/kg/day prednisolone which was tapered in 3 weeks) for any possible rapid recovery of vision. The visual acuity of the involved eye was improved to 20/25 and 20/20, one week and three weeks after starting treatment respectively. Thus, it seems that short-term oral steroids might be an alternative method of management for patients with MEWDS.https://ijaai.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijaai/article/view/2508InflammationPrednisoloneWhite dot syndromes |
| spellingShingle | Amir Hossein Norooznezhad Vahid Mohammadzadeh Sakineh Kadivar Fariba Ghassemi Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome: A Case Report and Experience with Corticosteroid Therapy Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Inflammation Prednisolone White dot syndromes |
| title | Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome: A Case Report and Experience with Corticosteroid Therapy |
| title_full | Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome: A Case Report and Experience with Corticosteroid Therapy |
| title_fullStr | Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome: A Case Report and Experience with Corticosteroid Therapy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome: A Case Report and Experience with Corticosteroid Therapy |
| title_short | Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome: A Case Report and Experience with Corticosteroid Therapy |
| title_sort | multiple evanescent white dot syndrome a case report and experience with corticosteroid therapy |
| topic | Inflammation Prednisolone White dot syndromes |
| url | https://ijaai.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijaai/article/view/2508 |
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