[What should be known of the Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease? (author's transl)]. 1980

A Fournier, and J P Bonnin, and D Colomb

The Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease is an unusual affection, characterized by a meningeal syndrome, an ocular syndrome involving the anterior or posterior segment of the eye, and at last, manifestations of skin involvement such as poliosis, vitiligo and alopecia. Nowadays, the physiopathologic hypothesis, the most admitted, is the one of auto-immune process regarding the uveal pigment. Nosologically speaking, clinical epidemiologic and etiopathogenic arguments have allowed to join the Harada and Vogt-Koyanagi diseases under the same name: the Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease. The same arguments, except the epidemiologic ones, allow to make a similarity between this affection and uveo-meningitis on the hand, sympathetic ophthalmitis on the other hand. The use of oral corticosteröids and eventually immuno-suppressive agents constitute the only therapeutic methods, nowadays.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008581 Meningitis Inflammation of the coverings of the brain and/or spinal cord, which consist of the PIA MATER; ARACHNOID; and DURA MATER. Infections (viral, bacterial, and fungal) are the most common causes of this condition, but subarachnoid hemorrhage (HEMORRHAGES, SUBARACHNOID), chemical irritation (chemical MENINGITIS), granulomatous conditions, neoplastic conditions (CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS), and other inflammatory conditions may produce this syndrome. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1994, Ch24, p6) Pachymeningitis,Meningitides,Pachymeningitides
D009879 Ophthalmia, Sympathetic Granulomatous uveitis which follows in one eye after a penetrating injury to the other eye; the secondarily affected eye is called the sympathizing eye, and the injured eye is called the exciting or activating eye. Uveitis, Sympathetic,Ophthalmias, Sympathetic,Sympathetic Ophthalmia,Sympathetic Ophthalmias,Sympathetic Uveitides,Sympathetic Uveitis,Uveitides, Sympathetic
D005128 Eye Diseases Diseases affecting the eye. Eye Disorders,Eye Disease,Eye Disorder
D005260 Female Females
D006311 Hearing Disorders Conditions that impair the transmission of auditory impulses and information from the level of the ear to the temporal cortices, including the sensorineural pathways. Distorted Hearing,Dysacusis,Paracousis,Paracusis,Hearing Disorder,Hearing, Distorted
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D000505 Alopecia Absence of hair from areas where it is normally present. Alopecia, Androgenetic,Baldness,Male Pattern Baldness,Pseudopelade,Alopecia Cicatrisata,Alopecia, Male Pattern,Androgenetic Alopecia,Androgenic Alopecia,Baldness, Male Pattern,Female Pattern Baldness,Hair Loss,Pattern Baldness,Alopecia Cicatrisatas,Alopecia, Androgenic,Alopecias, Androgenic,Androgenic Alopecias,Baldness, Female Pattern,Baldness, Pattern,Hair Losses,Loss, Hair,Losses, Hair,Male Pattern Alopecia
D012173 Retinitis Inflammation of the RETINA. It is rarely limited to the retina, but is commonly associated with diseases of the choroid (CHORIORETINITIS) and of the OPTIC DISK (neuroretinitis). Neuroretinitis

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