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serpiginous choroiditis

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0018152

Serpiginous choroiditis is a rare inflammatory eye condition that typicallydevelops betweenage 30 and 70 years. Affected individuals have lesions in the eye thatlast from weeks to months and involve scarringof the eye tissue.Recurrence of these lesionsis common in serpiginous choroiditis. Vision loss may occurin one or both eyeswhen the macula is involved. Treatment options involve anti-inflammatory and immune-suppressing medications. [ https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/31/serpiginous-choroiditis ]

Term info

database cross reference
  • GARD:0000031 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
  • Orphanet:35686 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
  • SCTID:312491004 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
  • UMLS:C0729842 (Orphanet:35686/e)
  • ICD9:363.8 (MONDO:relatedTo)
Subsets

gard_rare, ordo_disease

definition

Serpiginous choroiditis is a rare inflammatory eye condition that typicallydevelops betweenage 30 and 70 years. Affected individuals have lesions in the eye thatlast from weeks to months and involve scarringof the eye tissue.Recurrence of these lesionsis common in serpiginous choroiditis. Vision loss may occurin one or both eyeswhen the macula is involved. Treatment options involve anti-inflammatory and immune-suppressing medications.

exactMatch

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Orphanet_35686, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0729842, http://identifiers.org/snomedct/312491004

has exact synonym

geographic helicoid peripapillary choroidopathy

has related synonym

geographic serpiginous choroiditis, geographic choroiditis, geographic helicoid peripapillary choroidopathy (GHPC), serpiginous choroidopathy, peripapillary choriopathy

id

MONDO:0018152

seeAlso

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/31/serpiginous-choroiditis

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