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Necrotizing retinopathies, including acute retinal necrosis (ARN) and progressive outer retinal necrosis (PORN), are a group of uncommon posterior segment complications associated with infections caused by the herpes virus. ARN was first described in 1971 by Urayama et al., Japanese ophthalmologists who termed the condition as Kirisawa uveitis and described it as acute unilateral panuveitis associated with optic neuritis and retinal panarteritis in healthy adults, with subsequent procession to diffuse necrotizing retinitis and/or subsequent rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) (Urayama et al. 1971). Standard diagnostic criteria for ARN were published by the American Uveitis Committee (Table 27.1) (Holland 1994).
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Takeda, A., Arima, M., Ishikawa, K., Hasegawa, E., Murakami, Y., Sonoda, KH. (2020). Acute Retinal Necrosis and Progressive Outer Retinal Necrosis. In: Yu, H. (eds) Inflammatory and Infectious Ocular Disorders. Retina Atlas. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8546-9_27
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