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Acute Syphilitic Posterior Placoid Uveitis An adult patient presented to the Bascom Palmer emergency room for evaluation of five days of bilateral painless vision loss and floaters. On slit lamp examination he did not have any conjunctival injection or anterior chamber cell or flare. Dilated fundus…

Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy (AZOOR) A patient with a history of photopsias in the left eye for approximately 20 years comes for evaluation due to photopsias now involving both eyes. Concomitantly, the patient also notices scotomas in both eyes. Infectious, immune, and degenerative retinopa…

Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy (AZOOR) A 31-year-old male presents with eye redness, foreign body sensation, and blurry vision in both eyes, worse in the right eye. On exam he is found to have follicular conjunctivitis in both eyes with sub epithelial infiltrates on the right cornea. His conj…

Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy A patient with no family history of retinal disease presented to the Bascom Palmer emergency room with 4 days of floaters in her right eye. Her VA was 20/30 and her intraocular pressure was normal. She was found to have vitreous hemorrha…

Full Thickness Macular Hole A 68-year-old female presented with blurry vision OD. Reported seeing black spots that became yellow with a halo and cloudy central vision. VA: 20/50 OD and 20/20 OS. DFE was significant for a small round defect in the fovea OD. Imaging work up: significant for OCT showi…

Non-Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Retinopathy A patient presented to the uveitis clinic for progressively decreasing vision in both eyes. She first noticed difficulty in seeing at night and later also developed flashes and halos of light. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/40 in the right eye and 20/8…

Vitreous Amyloidosis A patient presented to clinic with four months of blurry vision in the right eye. Of note, patient had previous vitrectomy for vitreous floaters of the left eye and panretinal photocoagulation in both eyes for retinal neovascularization. Examination of the right eye revealed de…