• Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Eye Diseases, Shang hai Clinical Research Center for Eye Diseases, Shanghai 200080, China;
  • Liu Xing is working on the Department of Ophthalmology, Quanzhou Children’s Hospital, Quanzhou 362000, China; Cui Kunming is working on the Department of Ophthalmology, The General Hospital of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Enshi 445000, China; Tian Yuzhi is working on the Department of Ophthalmology, Dali Aier Eye Hospital, Dali 671000, China;
Yu Suqin, Email: sq-yu@163.com
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Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS) is an acute retinal disease characterized by multifocal white spots in the fundus often seen in the unilateral eye. The lesions mainly involve the retinal pigment epithelium and the outer retinal structure. Typical ocular manifestations of MEWDS include grayish-white outer retinal spots with a clear borderline identified on the fundus, findings of hyper-autofluorescence in the early stage consistent with the spots identified on the fundus, and the optical coherence tomography manifestation of multifocal disruption of the ellipsoid zone. With the rapid development of multimodal imaging technology, some scholars found that these manifestations are not exclusive to MEWDS as some types of chorioretinopathy can also show MEWDS-like changes. The etiology of these diseases may be inflammation, infection, immunity, or tumor-related, misdiagnosed by masquerading as MEWDS. Here we summarized the clinical manifestations and imaging features of MEWDS and reviewed the fundus lesions changes that can be misdiagnosed as MEWDS.

Citation: Liu Xing, Cui Kunming, Tian Yuzhi, Yu Suqin. Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome and multiple evanescent white dot syndrome-like change. Chinese Journal of Ocular Fundus Diseases, 2023, 39(5): 430-436. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.cn511434-20211228-00726 Copy

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