Acute Retinal Necrosis Syndrome in an Immunosuppressed Kidney Transplant Patient.
- Author:
Woo Yeal LEE
1
;
Song Hee PARK
;
Hanho SHIN
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Soon chunhyang University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Acute retinal necrosis;
Immunosuppressive agents;
Kidney transplantation
- MeSH:
Humans;
Immunosuppressive Agents;
Kidney Transplantation;
Kidney*;
Prognosis;
Rare Diseases;
Retinal Necrosis Syndrome, Acute*
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1991;32(11):984-989
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The acute retinal necrosis syndrome is a rare disease and result in poor visual prognosis in the late stage. The acute retinal necrosis syndrome occurs commonly in otherwise healthy individuals but we treated a patient with the acute retinal necrosis syndrome who had been medicated with immunosuppressive agents after kidney transplantaion.
