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Bleb-Associated Endophthalmitis An adult patient presented to the Bascom Palmer emergency room for evaluation of two days of pain, redness, discharge, and vision loss of the left eye. He had a history of open angle glaucoma and underwent trabeculectomy bilaterally in both eyes two years prior to pr…

Pleomorphic Adenoma A patient with a past ocular history of presumed thyroid eye disease presented with left eye discomfort and left upper eyelid swelling for two days. She endorsed double vision but denied any blurry vision. Her exam was notable for visual acuity of 20/20 in the right eye and 20/2…

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…

IRVAN Syndrome An adult patient presented to the Uveitis clinic for evaluation after developing visual deficits in the right eye. He was previously diagnosed with multiple branch retinal artery and vein occlusions in both eyes concerning for an occlusive retinal vasculitis. On examination he was fo…

Peripheral Exudative Hemorrhagic Chorioretinopathy An elderly patient presented to the emergency room with 2 days of progressive floaters and vision loss in the right eye. His visual acuity was 20/80 in the right eye and 20/25 in the left eye. His intraocular pressure was normal in both eyes. Fundu…

Choroidal Granuloma from Presumed Ocular Tuberculosis An adult patient presented to the Bascom Palmer emergency room with 1 year of vision loss in the right eye and 3 months of vision loss in the left eye. She lived outside the United States in a country where tuberculosis was non-endemic, however …