Acute Retinal Necrosis Presenting in Developmentally-delayed Patients with Neonatal Encephalitis: A Case Series and Literature Review

Kingsley Okafor; Jonathan Liu; Sumeer Thinda; Ivan Schwab; Lawrence S Morse; Susanna Soon Chun Park; Ala Moshiri

doi:10.3109/09273948.2016.1160131

Acute Retinal Necrosis Presenting in Developmentally-delayed Patients with Neonatal Encephalitis: A Case Series and Literature Review

Kingsley Okafor, Jonathan Liu, Sumeer Thinda, Ivan Schwab, Lawrence S Morse, Susanna Soon Chun Park, Ala Moshiri

Ophthalmology and Vision Science

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Abstract

We report three cases of patients with developmental-delay from neonatal herpetic encephalitis and/or meningitis who presented years later with acute retinal necrosis due to herpes simplex virus. The diagnosis was delayed in all cases due to the patients’ inability to verbalize their ocular complaints and cooperate with eye examinations. This case series documents the clinical course, pathophysiologic mechanism, and treatment of acute retinal necrosis in this patient population. Clinicians should understand the importance of prudent consideration of acute retinal necrosis in patients with a history of neonatal herpetic encephalitis and/or meningitis presenting with a red eye.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Ocular Immunology and Inflammation
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/09273948.2016.1160131
State	Accepted/In press - May 20 2016

Keywords

ARN
encephalitis
herpes
retinitis
uveitis

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Ophthalmology
Immunology and Allergy

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Acute Retinal Necrosis Presenting in Developmentally-delayed Patients with Neonatal Encephalitis : A Case Series and Literature Review. / Okafor, Kingsley; Liu, Jonathan; Thinda, Sumeer; Schwab, Ivan; Morse, Lawrence S ; Park, Susanna Soon Chun ; Moshiri, Ala.

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