Birdshot retinochoroidopathy is a rare, chronic, bilateral, posterior uveitis with a distinctive clinical presentation and a strong genetic association.Middle aged white people of northern European extraction are most commonly aZicted.[1][2][3][4] The pathogenesis is unknown, but HLA-A29 positivity appears to confer predisposition, [5][6][7][8][9] and retinal autoimmunity seems to play a role.8 This review provides an updated summary of the current state of knowledge about birdshot retinochoroidopathy.It includes results of visual field and electrophysiological testing from markedly more patients than previous reports of these data.Furthermore, it provides prognostic information regarding visual acuity based on nearly twice the number of patients than the one previous report of this aspect of the disease.Such information is of special interest to patients.The paper is based on a chart review of the 59 birdshot patients evaluated at the National Eye Institute (NEI) and from a comprehensive review of the literature.
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Gasch et al. (1999) studied this question.