Objective To detect the clinical manifestations, diagnos is and treatment of painful ophthalmoplegia syndrome. Methods The data of onset, clinical m anifestations, laboratory examination, imaging and treatment from 12 patients with painful ophthalmoplegia, hospitalized from Mar, 2000 to Aug. 2005, were retro spectively analyzed. Results Multiple characters and extents of the headache were found in these 12 patients. The involved cranial nerves included the Ⅲ,Ⅳ, V1-2 and Ⅵ, especially the cranial nerve Ⅲ(83.3%). Several simultaneously in volved cranial nerves were frequently found (75%). Diseases which could cause hea dache along with ophthalmoplegia must be excluded before the diagnosis of the painful ophthalmoplegia syndrome was established. The examination of imaging was important for the diagnosis of painful ophthalmoplegia syndrome. Patients were sensitively responsive to cortico-steoid therapy. The cure rate was 75%. Conclusion The features of clinical manifestations, imaging results and the patients response to cortico-steoid therapy accorded with the etiology of nonspecific inflammation granuloma. Cortico-steoid therapy is effective after the definitude of the disease. (Chin J Ocul Fundus Dis, 2006,22:385-386)
Objective To study choroidal vascular abnormal characterisitics in Harada is disease using indocyanine green angiography (ICGA). Methods Twenty-six cases(52 eyes)of Harada is disease were examined with fundus fluorescein angiography(FFA) and ICGA. Results ICGA findings in Harada is disease were as follows:(1)choroidal hypofluorescence with edema in the early phase;(2)choroidal filling defects;(3)dilatation of choroidal vessels and vortex veins;(4)choroidal hyperpermeability in late period;(5)multifocal lower fluorescence in the midperiphery and posterior pole of the fundus in the late phase. Conclusions ICGA can find lesions of the choroidal vessels i.e. hypofluorescence with edema,disturbances of choroidal circulation,dilatation of choroidal vessels and vortex veins and the lower fluorescence maculation in the early phase and choroidal hyperpermeability in the late phase. (Chin J Ocul Fundus Dis,20000,16:12-13)
Objective To investigate the cilinical value of indocyanine green angiography(ICGA) in patients with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome(VKH). Methods Fundus fluorescein angiography(FFA) and indocyanine green angiography(ICGA) were used for comparative analyses in 26 cases(52 eyes)of VKH. Results In the acute stage of VKH,FFA revealed the multifocal leakage in the pigment epithelium and the multifocal serous retinal detachment,and the typical FFA manifestations disappeard following treatment.In the acute stage of the disease the ICGA showed:(1)numerous patchy areas of hypofluorescence and decreased flurescence in large and middle choroidal vessels(66.7%);(2)dilatation of the choroidal vessels(70.8%)and(3)in latephase of ICGA,the patchy areas of hyperfluorescence(79.2%).During the recovery stage of the disease,the abnormal undings in ICGA were resolved slower than those found in FFA. Conclusions ICGA may assist in providing valuable informations on choroidal circulation of VKH and be useful in evaluating the curative effects. (Chin J Ocul Fundus Dis,20000,16:9-11)