PANRETINAL RITONAVIR-INDUCED RETINOPATHY: A REPORT OF LONG-TERM USE.

Purpose: To report a case involving a patient with presumed panretinal ritonavir-induced retinopathy.

Methods: A 52-year-old, HIV-positive patient, with no criteria for AIDS associated with the use of ritonavir for more than 10 years, underwent clinical examination, fundus photography, spectral domain optical coherence tomography, and fundus autofluorescence imaging.

Results: Fundus examination revealed areas of atrophy and hypertrophy in the retinal pigment epithelium throughout the retina.

Evaluation of MEWDS-like lesions with fluorescein angiography and its frequency at an ophthalmic emergency department in Rio de Janeiro.

Purpose: To characterize multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS)-like lesions as diagnosed by clinical exam and fluorescein angiography (FA) to build an epidemiological profile of this disease and highlight the most common angiographical aspects. It is important to emphasize the existence of this syndrome and improve patients' information about the natural good course of this disease.

Methods: A cross-sectional study including all FA performed from July 2006 to October 2012 (6,111 exams analyzed) in patients at our ophthalmic emergency department, with analysis of the different angiographic aspects of the MEWDS-diagnosed cases.