RETINAL VASCULITIS REVEALED BY FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL-DISEASE

Fluorescein angiography was performed to examine retinal vascular abno rmalities in five consecutive patients with inflammatory bowel disease seen during the 2 years from April 1995 to March 1997, in a universit y hospital. All patients showed dye leakage from retinal capillaries i n the peripheral fundi of both eyes. Other ocular findings included ir itis in both eyes of two patients and clinically significant macular e dema in the unilateral eye of one patient. This study indicates that s ubclinical retinal vasculitis, revealed only by fluorescein angiograph y, is present in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Jpn J Ophth almol 1998;42:398-400 (C) 1998 Japanese Ophthalmological Society.