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Retinal vasculitis is an inflammatory disease which may result in visual loss1–3. It is characterized by intraocular inflammation and abnormalities in any or all types of retinal vessels1. Vasculitis may be paraneoplastic or associated with infection or chronic inflammatory systemic disease1,4. Permanent loss of vision occurs due to vascular leakage, occlusion or both1,2. The vaso-occlusion in the macular area has been recognized only quite recently5. In the following two patients, retinal vasculitis seemed to be idiopathic and of ischaemic type in both, but differed in the macular involvement and thus in the visual outcome.
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Summanen, P., Laatikainen, L. (1998). Idiopathic retinal occlusive vasculitis and the macula. In: Coscas, G., Piccolino, F.C. (eds) Retinal Pigment Epithelium and Macular Diseases. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5137-5_72
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