J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  1995 Oct;36(10):1810-1815.

1 Case of Perivascular Retinitis in a Patient with Hodgkin's Disease

• Noh JH
• Hong JW
• Huh K

Abstract

Although intraocular involvement in Hodgkin's disease is infrequent, there were reported iridocyclitis, exudative retinal detatchment, retinal hemorrhage, necrotizing retinitis, anterior and posterior uveitis, perivascular chorioretinitis. We report a 61 years old male patient with Hodgkin's disease who developed retinal lesion with decreased visual acuity in his right eye during a period of quiscence in his disease, 10 months since diagnosed. On first ophthalmic examination, best corrected vision of right eye was 0.6 and 1.0 on left eye. Fundus examination of the left eye was normal; however, the right eye revealed cotton wool patches, retinal edema, and intraretinal hemorrhage along the superior temporal venules. Fluorescein angiography showed blockage of choroidal flush in early phase and focal area of hyper fluorescence with perivascular leakage of dye in late phase. The results of TORCH test were negative, and the patient didn't have hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and bleeding tendency. Therefore we this case presumed perivascular retinitis associated with Hodgkin's disease.

Keyword

Hodgkin's disease; Perivascular retinitis; TORCH test

MeSH Terms

Chorioretinitis
Choroid
Diabetes Mellitus
Fluorescein Angiography
Fluorescence
Hemorrhage
Hodgkin Disease*
Humans
Hypertension
Iridocyclitis
Male
Middle Aged
Papilledema
Retinal Hemorrhage
Retinaldehyde
Retinitis*
Uveitis, Posterior
Venules
Visual Acuity
Wool
Retinaldehyde