• Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China;
Jiang Libin, Email: jlbjlb@sina.com
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Autoimmune retinopathy (AIR) is an umbrella term for a group of rare autoimmune retinal degenerative disease presumably caused by cross-reactivity of serum autoantibodies directed against ratinal antigens, and include cancer-associated retinopathy, melanoma-associated retinopathy and non-paraneoplastic autoimmune retinopathy. Common feature of AIR include progressively painless vision loss with abnormal electrophysiology responses associated with positive anti-retinal antibodies. They present a clinical diagnosis challenge on account of the rare incidence, unobvious clinical symptoms and lack of specific and sensitive biological markers. Early diagnosis and treatment may play a critical role to avoid the irreversible immunological retinal damage.

Citation: Chen Yue, Jiang Libin. Clinical features and research progress of autoimmune retinopathy. Chinese Journal of Ocular Fundus Diseases, 2021, 37(11): 901-905. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.cn511434-20201112-00547 Copy

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