Clinical and fluorescein angiographic findings of acute multifocal central subretinal inflammation.

Abstract

Three female patients with acute multifocal subretinal central lesions and with almost complete recovery of macular function are presented. The findings and the course of the disease are very similar to acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy described initially by Gass in 1968. Etiology of the disease could not be determined, but the history of solar exposition in two patients suggests the possibility of an exogenous factor.In the presented cases, fluorescein angiographic findings suggest primary alterations in the choriocapillaris rather than in the pigment epithelial cells.