5 Cases of Acute Retinal Necrosis.

Song, Gi Whun; Kwak, Hyung Woo

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1988;29(4):711-718.
Published online April 1, 1988.

5 Cases of Acute Retinal Necrosis.

Gi Whun Song, Hyung Woo Kwak

Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.

급서망막괴사 5 예의 임상관찰

송기훈(Gi Whun Song),곽형우(Hyung Woo Kwak)

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.