Choroiditis in Infantile Periarteritis Nodosa

Macular oedema in Kawasaki syndrome

“…However, this light-intensive technique is usually poorly tolerated by young and diseased children, and its application is not primarily justified from the point of view of its therapeutic implications [4]. Although OCT cannot assess changes in the choroidal vasculature, which have been occasionally reported in the context of KS [3,10], our observations correlate well with post-mortem findings of bilateral innerretinal ischaemia [11]. If retinal ischaemia occurs during the acute phase of KS, there is a risk of persistent visual damage [5,11].…”

Ophthalmoskopischer Befund bei 3 Patienten mit Panarteriitis nodosa und Literaturübersicht12

“…Entzündliche Netz-bzw. Aderhautbefunde bei PAN wurden in zahlreichen Publikationen beschrieben [4,13,12,14,15,16,17,18,21,24,26,33,35,38,40]. Schlussfolgerung: Unsere Patienten zeigen, dass das Auftreten eines entzündlichen ophthalmoskopischen Befundes Anlass sein sollte, nach vaskulitischen Systemerkrankungen zu fahnden.…”