J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.
1988 Aug;29(4):711-718.
5 Cases of Acute Retinal Necrosis
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- 1Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- The acute retinal necrosis is characterized by necrotizing retinitis, vitritis, and retinal vasculitis occurring in otherwise healthy patients. It develops into retinal necrosis and detachment. The clinical course of ARN is rapidly progressive despite therapeutic efforts. We experienced 6 eyes of 5 cases with ARN. In this study, the distribution of patients was 3 males and 2 females and they were from 23 to 53 years old in age, average 39.4 years. The duration of observation was from 3 days to 24 months and we observed retinal detachment in 2 cases(40%) that developed 2 weeks and 4 weeks after onset in each cases. One case involved both eyes, and the other, in one eye. Four of 6 eyes(65%) had a final visual acuity of less than 0.1.
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