Publications by authors named "Safa Ben Aoun"

Background: Rickettsial disease has been commonly associated with retinitis, retinal vasculitis, and optic nerve involvement, but the development of retinal neovascularization has been very rarely reported. We herein describe a case of rickettsial retinitis complicated with the development of sea-fan retinal neovascularization documented with multimodal imaging, including fundus photography, SS-OCT, fluorescein angiography, and SS-OCT angiography.

Case Presentation: A 26-year-old female with a history of fever one week earlier presented with sudden decreased vision in the left eye.

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Purpose: To describe retinal and choroidal vascular changes following an exercise stress test (ET) in patients with effort angina and to determine whether optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) could play a role in the prediction of ischemic cardiac events.

Methods: Prospective comparative study including patients with effort angina. All patients underwent OCT-A before and after an ET was performed.

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Purpose: This study aimed to determine predictive factors for low final visual acuity in patients with inactive Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease using Swept-source OCT and OCT-angiography (OCT-A).

Methods: We conducted a prospective longitudinal study, including 21 patients (42 eyes), who were followed up for the first 24 months after disease onset. Patients were included at the acute phase and subsequently treated.

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Purpose: To evaluate choroidal findings on multimodal imaging in eyes within pachychoroid spectrum diseases and to compare quantitative and qualitative choroidal features between non-neovascular (NNV-PDS) and neovascular (NV-PDS) pachychoroid diseases.

Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study comparing between NV-PDS and NNV-PDS. All patients underwent multimodal imaging including infracyanine green angiography (IFCGA) and swept source optical coherence tomography (OCT) and angiography (OCT-A).

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Purpose: To describe clinical and anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) findings in a patient with bilateral iridoschisis and unilateral angle closure glaucoma (ACG) associated with abnormal visibility of iris vessels.

Case Presentation: A 67-year-old male patient with a history of red and painful left eye (LE) one year earlier, presented to our ophthalmology department for a routine examination.Ophthalmic examination of the right eye revealed narrow anterior chamber with sectorial iris atrophy associated to abnormal visibility of an iris vessel.

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Objective: To describe a case of Behçet disease (BD) uveitis manifesting with sequential bilateral neuroretinitis associated with prepapillary inflammatory vitreous exudate (PIVE).

Material And Methods: A single case report documented with multimodal imaging.

Results: A 37-year-old man developed neuroretinitis with associated PIVE in the left eye.

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