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Unilateral acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy in a patient with a strongly positive purified protein derivative test

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Title
Unilateral acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy in a patient with a strongly positive purified protein derivative test
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Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, August 2019
DOI 10.5935/0004-2749.20190084
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Thiago Cabral, Luiz Guilherme Marchesi Mello, Natália N. Barcellos, Júlia Polido, Paulo M. Peçanha, Fábio Petersen Saraiva, Rubens Belfort

Abstract

A 27-year-old man presented with a complaint of decreased visual acuity in the right eye. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/60 in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye. Right eye fundoscopy revealed mild vitritis, multifocal yellowish lesions, and macular serous retinal detachment. Left eye evaluation was normal. Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy was diagnosed in the right eye. Complementary exams revealed a strong reaction to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis purified protein derivative test, thus treatment for tuberculosis was initiated. Baseline fluorescein angiography of the right eye revealed early hypofluorescence and late staining of the lesions. Optical coherence tomography of the right eye demonstrated the accumulation of subretinal and intraretinal fluid associated with cystoid macular edema. During follow-up, the retinal fluid and cysts disappeared, which was followed by disorganization of foveal interdigitation and ellipsoid zones. This is the second described case of unilateral acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy in a patient with a strong positive result to the M. tuberculosis purified protein derivative test.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 36%
Other 2 18%
Student > Postgraduate 1 9%
Unknown 4 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 3 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 18%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 9%
Computer Science 1 9%
Engineering 1 9%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 27%
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