Title of article
Brief report Coats’ Disease and Cytomegalovirus Infection
Author/Authors
Ghassemi, Fariba Ocular Oncology and Retina & Vitreous Service - Farabi Eye Hospital - Tehran University of medical sciences, Tehran , Sabour, Siamak Department of Epidemiology - Faculty of Health - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran
Pages
4
From page
75
To page
78
Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the vascular occlusion in Coats’ disease
Methods: In this non-comparative case series, 13 consecutive patients with Coats’ disease from January
2011 to September 2011 were included. The hypercoagulability states were evaluated in these patients.
Results: The mean age of the patients in this series was 15.4 years. All but one patient had high
anti-Cytomegalovirus antibody (IgG) level and two third of the patients had higher than normal levels of
alpha-2 globulin.
Conclusions: It seems that there is a possible relation between history of old Cytomegalovirus old infection
and ocular vascular changes in Coats’ disease deserving more evaluations in a larger series.
Keywords
Globulin , Coats’ Disease , Anti-Cytomegalovirus Antibody
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Serial Year
2012
Record number
2430789
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