An typical case of Acute Posterior Multifocal placoid pigment Epitheliopathy with intraretinal fluid by Renato Correia Barbosa in Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences.
An typical case of Acute Posterior Multifocal placoid pigment Epitheliopathy with intraretinal fluid by Renato Correia Barbosa in Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences. Abstract Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy is a rare inflammatory chorioretinopathy, classified as a white dot syndrome. It usually presents in young adults and results in ischemia of the choriocapillaris leading to atrophy of the external retinal layers, including the retinal pigment epithelium. This report describes an atypical case of this disease with the presence of intraretinal fluid. A 20-year-old male patient presented with complaints of sudden, severe left eye vision loss. He did not report any systemic symptoms, and his medical history was unremarkable. Slit-lamp examination and fundoscopy revealed a normal anterior segment, with yellow placoid lesions on his macula and near periphery. He underwent a spectral-domain optical coherence tomography ...