FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Autoimmune retinopathy is a rare disease that is difficult to diagnose because of the near absence of clinical findings, symptom overlap with those of other diseases and limited, nonstandardized diagnostic criteria.
“AIR is a diagnosis of exclusion,” Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH, said at Retina World Congress.
Autoimmune retinopathy (AIR) is classified as paraneoplastic — either cancer associated or melanoma associated — or non-paraneoplastic.
“With the cancer-associated tag, we think that there is some cross-reactivity between tumor antigens