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Birdshot Chorioretinopathy

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Birdshot chorioretinopathy (BSCR) is a chronic, progressive, bilateral, and often symmetric autoimmune posterior uveitis, with characteristic round, creamy-colored chorioretinal lesions. It can affect the retina, choroid, and optic nerve. Multimodal imaging is very useful in supporting the diagnosis and is especially helpful in monitoring disease activity and response to treatment. The mainstay treatment of BSCR is steroid-sparing immunomodulatory therapy (IMT), often with combination of different immunomodulating agents.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Arash Maleki, Muhammad Sohail Halim & Quan Dong Nguyen

  2. Noor Ophthalmology Research Center, Noor Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran

    Arash Maleki

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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

    Carl P Herbort Jr.

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Maleki, A., Halim, M.S., Nguyen, Q.D. (2018). Birdshot Chorioretinopathy. 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_75-2

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