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Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome (MEWDS)

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Intraocular Inflammation

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Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS) has been classified as one of the white dot syndromes (WDS) based on fundus appearance. Now that choriocapillaris inflammation is the strongly suspected underlying mechanism of most of these diseases, this terminology, simply based on fundus appearance, has no justification anymore. Regarding MEWDS, the disease is suspected to develop as a consequence of inflammatory choriocapillaris non-perfusion and has been classified among the primary inflammatory choriocapillaropathies. The disease was first described by Lee Jampol et al. in 1984.

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  1. Centre for Ophthalmic Specialised Care (COS), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Carl P. Herbort MD, PhD

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Carl P. Herbort MD, PhD

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  1. Centre of Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Manfred Zierhut

  2. Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eyes Hospital, Department of Medical Retina, UCL, London, United Kingdom

    Carlos Pavesio

  3. School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Hokkaido University Graduate, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

    Shigeaki Ohno

  4. University of Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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  5. USC Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Narsing A. Rao

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Herbort, C.P. (2016). Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome (MEWDS). In: Zierhut, M., Pavesio, C., Ohno, S., Orefice, F., Rao, N. (eds) Intraocular Inflammation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75387-2_91

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