Acute retinal pigment epitheliitis (clinical cases)

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Abstract

Acute retinal pigment epitheliitis (Krill’s disease) is a rare idiopathic self-limiting inflammatory macular disease. The article presents the results of multimodal dynamic imaging in 2 patients with acute retinal pigment epitheliitis, including, for the first time ever, the results of optical coherence tomography-angiography, suggesting the pathogenetic significance of changes in perfusion in the choriocapillaris for the development of this disease.

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Taisiia A. Doktorova

Saint Petersburg Branch S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution; North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov

Author for correspondence.
Email: taisiiadok@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2162-4018
SPIN-code: 8921-9738

postgraduate student, ophthalmologis

Russian Federation, 21 Yaroslava Gasheka st., Saint Petersburg, 192283; Saint Petersburg

Anastasiya N. Panfilova

Ophthalmological center “Vision”

Email: panfilova@zrenie.spb.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8191-6090

ophthalmologist

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Aleksei A. Suetov

Saint Petersburg Branch S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution; State Research and Testing Institute of Military Medicine

Email: ophtalm@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8670-2964
SPIN-code: 4286-6100

MD, Cand. Sci. (Medicine)

Russian Federation, 21 Yaroslava Gasheka st., Saint Petersburg, 192283; Saint Petersburg

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