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Serpiginous choroiditis, also known as geographic helicoid peripapillary choroidopathy (GHPC), is a rare, chronic, progressive, and recurrent bilateral inflammatory disease involving the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), the choriocapillaries, and the choroid. [1] It affects adult men and women equally in the second to seventh decades of life. [2]
Chorioretinitis is an inflammation of the choroid (thin pigmented vascular coat of the eye) and retina of the eye. It is a form of posterior uveitis . Inflammation of these layers can lead to vision-threatening complications.
In contrast, white dots appear later in the disease stages of birdshot choroidopathy, serpiginous choroiditis, and acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy. The white dots in these diseases may be present throughout the entire fundus, larger (50 to 500 μm), and tend to clump together.
Posterior uveitis or chorioretinitis is the inflammation of the retina and choroid. ... serpiginous choroiditis; acute zonal occult outer retinopathy; Masquerade ...
Serpiginous, first known to be used in the 15th century, is a term from Latin serpere (“to creep”), usually referring to a creeping, snakelike or slowly progressive skin disease. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is used to describe the rash in cutaneous larvae migrans , [ 3 ] erythema annulare centrifugum , [ 4 ] purpura annularis telangiectoides , ringworm ...
Chorioretinitis; Chorioretinopathy dominant form microcephaly; Choroid plexus cyst; Choroid plexus neoplasms; Choroidal atrophy alopecia; Choroideremia; Choroideremia hypopituitarism; Choroiditis; Choroiditis, serpiginous; Choroido cerebral calcification syndrome infantile
Recently, central serous chorioretinopathy has been understood to be part of the pachychoroid spectrum. [5] [6] In pachychoroid spectrum disorders, of which CSR represents stage II, the choroid, the highly vascularized layer below the retina, is thickened and congested with increased blood vessel diameter, especially in the deep choroid (the so-called Haller's layer).
Progressive outer retinal necrosis (PORN) syndrome is a form of chorioretinitis, an infection in the retina, the back of the eye.The disease is most commonly caused by the varicella zoster virus and is found almost exclusively in patients with HIV/AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).