Woman presents with white retinal lesions

A 41-year-old Japanese-Caucasian woman was referred to the New England Eye Center for evaluation of retinal lesions in both eyes. Three weeks prior, she developed blurred vision, vertigo, headache, swollen neck glands, sore throat and malaise. She presented to an outside emergency department where she had a normal MRI of the brain and orbits and a positive throat culture for Streptococcus. She was seen by a consulting ophthalmologist who noted 20/200 vision in each eye with “white round patches surrounding the macula with areas of dot hemorrhages” in both eyes. (Read more...)

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