Association of antiretinal antibodies in acute annular outer retinopathy.

In 1995, Gass and Stern1 described a case of acute annular outer retinopathy (AAOR) in a patient with rapid-onset, large, dense scotoma associated with a gray intraretinal ring. Recently, Fekrat et al2 presented 4 patients with presumed AAOR and hypothesized an immune-mediated role in the pathogenesis. Concrete evidence for autoimmunity and effective therapy are needed. We report 2 patients with classic AAOR.

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