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## ABSTRACT. **Purpose:** An increasing variety of eponymous terms have been used to describe atypical cases of Coats’ disease. A group of typical cases of Coats’ disease and other cases of differing severity were classified as one of four subtypes of idiopathic retinal telangiectasis with exudation and compared with regard to clinical outcome. **Methods:** In a retrospective clinical review patients with typical and atypical Coats’ disease were classified as severe, focal, juxtafoveal or associated (with another disease) forms of idiopathic retinal telangiectasis with exudation. **Results:** 53 eyes in 50 patients were examined of which 62% (n=31) were male. 12 eyes were classified as severe (group 1), 22 focal (group 2), 12 juxtafoveal (group 3) and 7 associated (group 4). The mean age at diagnosis was lowest in group 1 eyes (6.8 years). The best visual acuity at presentation was 6/60 in group 1 whereas high proportions of eyes in the other groups had initial visual acuities of 6/24 or better. In group 1 only one eye was treated, the majority of eyes were blind or had been enucleated whereas 34 (79%) of eyes in the other groups were suitable for treatment and 29 eyes (67%) retain

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Author

M. Cahill; M. O'Keefe; R. Acheson; A. Mulvihill; D. Wallace; D. Mooney

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1395-3907)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)