What is retinal vasculitis?
retina vasculitis is a disease that causes painless damage to the smallest retinal blood vessels, an area responsible for the perception of light. This condition may be associated with primary eye diseases or inflammatory or infectious diseases that are systemic, which means that they can affect other areas of the body. The retinal vasculitis is most often associated with two systemic inflammatory diseases, sarcoidosis and behavoral disease, as well as with autoimmune sclerosis. Common symptoms include blurring vision, changing color perception and metamorphopsia, which causes distortion of direct lines and other images. Scotoms or blind spots and floats, small dark shapes that appear in the field of vision are also commonly experienced in patients with retina vasculitis. In some cases, however, patients may have no symptoms.
The diagnosis of retinal vasculitis is made on the basis of a typicalCH findings observed using an ophthalmoscope and angiogram, X -ray, which uses a contrasting dye to enhance the area of the retina. Typical diagnostic findings may include vascular shells, a yellowish white area of inflammatory cell accumulation along the walls of the blood vessels, as well as retaining bleeding, blood infiltration into a spotted, which is a clear substance that includes an area of the eye. Other common findings may include narrowing of retinal blood vessels and the growth of new blood vessels.
The treatment of retinal vasculitis depends on the patient's symptoms. The patient may be easily observed if the inflammation is still mild and the patient's vision has not been affected. Corticosteroid eye drops and periocular corticaine steroids may also be prescribed if there is no visible damage to the retina on the angiogram. In serious cases, more aggressive systemic therapy is administered orally or intravenously to help control the disease. Aggressive therapy can be invited, pThe patient has experienced a loss of vision or shows evidence of macular edema, swelling of the central area of the retina.
The prognosis in patients diagnosed with retinal vasculitis varies greatly between patients and can be highly unpredictable. While some patients will never experience significant damage related to disease, others will suffer from complete loss of vision despite the most aggressive therapies. Although most patients diagnosed with retinal vasculitis do not have associated systemic disease, all patients should obtain a thorough evaluation, including key radiological and laboratory testing, at the time of diagnosis.