Case Report: A 34-year-old man presented with anterior scleral thinning in the right eye (RE) and a painful nodular scleritis in the left eye (LE). Fundus examination showed a healed vasculitis and an inferior epiretinal neovascular membrane in the LE. Topical and systemic oral steroids and antiviral medication were prescribed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe paper describes the occurrence of unilateral paracentral corneal melting in a 65-year-old woman with ocular and systemic signs of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada's syndrome (VKH), psoriasis, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Corneal melting, often occurring in association with systemic vasculitis and connective tissue diseases, has rarely been reported in relation to diffuse psoriasis and never in association with VKH. A possible relationship between corneal melting and VKH is suggested.
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