Corneal anesthesia in a case with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome.

PURPOSE: To add clinical features to the description of the Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome.

METHOD: Case report.

RESULTS

The case presented with a typical medical history of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, including headaches, low-grade fever, nuchal rigidity, and from the eyes bilateral visual loss, a reaction from the anterior chambers, bilateral uveities with localized exudative retinal detachment from the left. In addition there were tonic pupils, anesthesia of the corneas, and an accommodative deficit.

CONCLUSION

Corneal anesthesia, tonic pupils and accommodative impairment can be features of the Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome.