Mortality from cerebral vasculitis associated with rapid steroid taper during treatment of acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy.

El Sanhouri, Ahmed

Mortality from cerebral vasculitis associated with rapid steroid taper during treatment of acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy. [electronic resource] - Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) Jul 2012 - 935-7 p. digital

Publication Type: Case Reports; Letter

1538-3601

10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.2522 doi


Administration, Oral
Fatal Outcome
Female
Fluorescein Angiography
Glucocorticoids--administration & dosage
Humans
Middle Aged
Prednisone--administration & dosage
Retinal Diseases--diagnosis
Retinal Pigment Epithelium--drug effects
Substance Withdrawal Syndrome--etiology
Tomography, Optical Coherence
Tomography, Spiral Computed
Vasculitis, Central Nervous System--chemically induced
Visual Acuity