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Herpes Viral Retinochoroiditis

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Few viruses have a particular affinity for the retina, can infect it and cause superficial or deep necrotic lesions, both in immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients. Among various clinical situations, acute retinal necrosis or ARN syndrome is a well-defined condition, due to a member of the herpesvirus family, presenting with vitritis, retinal necrosis, severe retinal occlusive vasculitis, and papillitis. Like other herpetic retinopathies, ARN is a diagnosic and therapeutic emergency, but it is not always possible to prevent the occurrence of serious complications such as retinal detachment and final poor visual outcome despite aggressive antiviral therapy. Molecular diagnosis is playing a major role in viral identification and monitoring of treatment efficacy. Some viral retinal disorders may be difficult to differentiate from those caused by nonviral infectious agents such as syphilis and toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis or a malignant condition.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, DHU Vision and Handicaps, UPMC, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83 Boulevard de l’hôpital, 75013, Paris, France

    Anne-Laure Rémond, Phuc Le Hoang & Bahram Bodaghi

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  1. Advanced Eye Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Vishali Gupta

  2. Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University, Paris, France

    Phuc LeHoang

  4. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Rémond, AL., Le Hoang, P., Bodaghi, B. (2016). Herpes Viral Retinochoroiditis. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Herbort Jr., C. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2506-5_54-1

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