Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada syndrome – current perspectives

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Figure 1 Color photograph of a patient in the chronic recurrent phase of the VKHD showing acute anterior uveitis and mild poliosis (white arrow).

Abbreviation: VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease.

Figure 2 Color retinal photographs of a patient during the acute phase of VKHD.

Notes: (A) Multifocal choroiditis lesions of variable size representing along the superior arcade (black arrow). (B) The posterior pole depicting a hyperemic optic disc (white arrow), multifocal choroiditis (black arrow), and multiple areas of SRDs (red arrows).
Abbreviations: VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease; SRDs, serous retinal detachments.

Figure 3 Color retinal photographs of right (A) and left eye (B) showing swollen and hyperemic optic discs (white arrows), with choroidal folds disc (black arrows), in the acute phase of VKHD.

Abbreviation: VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease.

Figure 4 Color retinal photographs of right (A) and left eye (B) during the convalescent phase of VKHD, showing sunset glow fundus with pale optic discs (white arrows) and bright-orange choroids (black arrows). Note the peripapillary atrophy (gray arrow) and macular scaring (blue arrow) in (A).

Abbreviation: VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease.

Figure 5 Color retinal photograph displaying sunset glow fundus with a numerous small choroidal depigmented atrophic lesions (black arrow) and hyperpigmented lesions (white arrow) in the retinal periphery during the convalescent phase of VKHD.

Abbreviation: VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease.

Figure 6 Color retinal and FFA photographs of a patient in the acute phase of VKHD showing (A) hyperemic optic disc with deep yellow lesions of variable size and multiple SRD, (B) early FFA showing delayed choroidal filling, (C) mid phase of FFA showing pinpoint hyperfluorescent leakage at the RPE level (D) with pooling of the dye in the subretinal space in the late phase of the angiogram.

Abbreviations: FFA, fundus fluorescein angiography; VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease; SRD, serous retinal detachment; RPE, retinal pigment epithelium.

Figure 7 Color retinal photograph of the right eye showing swollen and hyperemic optic discs (A) and FFA showing hot disc (B) (white arrows), in the acute phase of VKHD.

Abbreviations: FFA, fundus fluorescein angiography; VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease.

Figure 8 FFA photograph of a patient in the acute phase of VKHD showing optic disc leakage and numerous hyperfluorescent pinpoint foci of leakage at the level of RPE leading to the classic “starry sky” appearance.

Abbreviations: FFA, fundus fluorescein angiography; VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease; RPE, retinal pigment epithelium.

Figure 9 Color retinal (A) and FFA (B) photographs of a VKHD patient with macular CNV (white arrows).

Abbreviations: FFA, fundus fluorescein angiography; VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease; CNV, choroidal neovascularization.

Figure 10 ICG photographs of the right eye of a patient in the acute phase of VKHD showing (A) patchy hypofluorescence during the early angiographic phase, (B) large choroidal stromal vessel hyperfluorescence with fuzzy choroidal vessels in the early phase, (C) hypofluorescent dark dots during the intermediate phase of angiography, and (D) diffuse choroidal hyperfluorescence in the late phase.

Abbreviations: ICG, indocyanine green angiography; VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease.

Figure 11 Short wavelength light (blue) FAF photographs of eyes of a patient with chronic VKHD.

Notes: (A) Right eye showing areas of hypoautofluorescence (black arrow) corresponding to RPE atrophy and loss. (B) Left eye showing areas of hyperautofluorescence (white arrow) corresponding to RPE proliferation.
Abbreviations: FAF, fundus autofluorescence; VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease; RPE, retinal pigment epithelium.

Figure 12 OCT scan of the macula of a patient in the acute phase of VKHD before and after starting corticosteroid treatment.

Notes: (A) SRD (white arrow) and a mild fluctuation in the ILM (red arrow). (B) Resolution of SRD with treatment (white arrow).
Abbreviations: OCT, optical coherence tomography; VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease; SRD, serous retinal detachment; ILM, internal limiting membrane.

Table 1 Complications associated with VKHD

Complication	Study
Glaucoma	Read et al;^Citation2 Arevalo et al;^Citation158 Rubsamen and Gass;^Citation157 Yang et al;^Citation34 Forster et al;^Citation159 Abu El-Asrar et al;^Citation30 Pandey et al^Citation160
Cataract	Read et al;^Citation2 Moorthy et al;^Citation1 Arevalo et al;^Citation158 Bykhovskaya et al;^Citation161 Rubsamen and Gass;^Citation157 Yang et al;^Citation34 Abu El-Asrar et al;^Citation30 Pandey et al^Citation160
CNV	Moorthy et al;^Citation1 Read et al;^Citation2 Arevalo et al;^Citation158 Rubsamen and Gass;^Citation157 Abu El-Asrar et al;^Citation30 Pandey et al;^Citation160 Lertsumitkul et al;^Citation165 Moorthy et al^Citation164
Subretinal fibrosis	Read et al;^Citation2 Yang et al;^Citation34 Abu El-Asrar et al;^Citation30 Lertsumitkul et al;^Citation165 Kuo et al^Citation166
CME	Bykhovskaya et al;^Citation161 Rutzen et al;^Citation167 Pandey et al^Citation160
Band keratopathy	Arevalo et al;^Citation158 Yang et al;^Citation34 Yang and Sun^Citation168
Pseudotumoral RPE proliferation	Khairallah et al;^Citation169 Yepez et al^Citation170
Posterior synechiae	Arevalo et al^Citation158
RRD and ERM	Pandey et al^Citation160
MH and ERM	Kobayashi et al;^Citation84 Pandey et al^Citation160

Abbreviations: VKHD, Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease; CNV, choroidal neovascularization; CME, cystoid macular edema; RPE, retinal pigment epithelium; RRD, rhegmatogenous retinal detachment; ERM, epiretinal membrane; MH, macular hole.

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