Année 2021 au COS

Durant cette année 2021 qui s’est terminée, le COS a continué à recevoir de nombreux patients à qui des soins de la meilleure qualité possible ont été administrés, grâce à nos collaboratrices et collaborateurs toujours aussi dynamiques et compétents et aussi grâce à mon confrère, le docteur Ioannis Papasavvas, qui accomplit un fellowship (formation postgrade) en maladies oculaires inflammatoires et rétiniennes dans notre centre. Nous remercions nos confrères qui nous ont fait confiance et nous ont envoyé les patients qui nécessitaient des consultations spécialisées.

Le COS a publié pas moins de 22 articles dans des journaux scientifiques internationaux. La liste des articles publiés se trouve ci-dessous. Ainsi avons-nous publié une revue des méthodes d’investigation en imagerie des maladies oculaires inflammatoires dans 2 articles dans le journal réputé « Eye (London) ». Nous avons revu la prise en charge des inflammations oculaires chez l’enfant également dans deux articles. Plusieurs articles ont concerné les maladies de la choroïde difficiles à diagnostiquer et surtout difficile à traiter. Nous nous sommes également intéressés à de potentiels effets secondaires de la vaccination anti-Covid, réactivation d’herpes oculaire et de zona oculaire. Il s’agit d’effets secondaires facile à traiter grâce aux substances anti-inflammatoires et anti-virales dont nous disposons aujourd’hui.

Nous avons également fait une revue extensive d’une maladie oculaire méconnue et mal comprise : la rétinochoroidite de birdshot.

La plupart de ces articles sont librement accessibles.

  1. Papasavvas I, Mantovani A, Tugal-Tutkun I, Herbort CP Jr. Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS): update on practical appraisal, diagnosis and clinicopathology; a review and an alternative comprehensive perspective. J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect. 2021 Dec 18;11(1):45. doi: 10.1186/s12348-021-00279-7. PMID: 34921620.
  2. Herbort CP Jr, Neri P, Papasavvas I. Clinicopathology of non-infectious choroiditis: evolution of its appraisal during the last 2-3 decades from « white dot syndromes » to precise classification. J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect. 2021 Nov 17;11(1):43. doi: 10.1186/s12348-021-00274-y. PMID: 34787732; PMCID: PMC8599546.
  3. Neri P, Herbort CP Jr, Hedayatfar A, Tugal-Tutkun I, Cimino L, Urzua CA, Papasavvas I, Takeuchi M, Lages V. « White dot syndromes », an inappropriate and outdated misnomer. Int Ophthalmol. 2021 Nov 16. doi: 10.1007/s10792-021-02121-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34783928.
  4. Herbort CP Jr, Papasavvas I. Effect of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination on ocular herpes simplex and varicella-zoster virus reactivation: should preventive antiviral treatment be given in known herpes patients. J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect. 2021 Sep 17;11(1):33. doi: 10.1186/s12348-021-00262-2. PMID: 34533628; PMCID: PMC8446741.
  5. Papasavvas I, de Courten C, Herbort CP Jr. Varicella-zoster virus reactivation causing herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO) after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination – report of three cases. J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect. 2021 Sep 16;11(1):28. doi: 10.1186/s12348-021-00260-4. PMID: 34529153; PMCID: PMC8443850.
  6. Papadia M, Pavésio C, Fardeau C, Neri P, Kestelyn PG, Papasavvas I, Herbort CP. HLA-A29 Birdshot Retinochoroiditis in Its 5th Decade: Selected Glimpses into the Intellectual Meanderings and Progresses in the Knowledge of a Long-Time Misunderstood Disease. Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 Jul 19;11(7):1291. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11071291. PMID: 34359373; PMCID: PMC8305470.
  7. AlBloushi AF, Herbort CP Jr, Abu El-Asrar AM. Initial-onset acute uveitis associated with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease presenting with unilateral exudative retinal detachment despite bilateral choroidal involvement. Int Ophthalmol. 2021 Dec;41(12):4187-4195. doi: 10.1007/s10792-021-01989-6. Epub 2021 Aug 3. PMID: 34346004.
  8. Tran L, Papasavvas I, Fleischhauer J, Herbort CP Jr. Peripheral Inflammatory Yellow Exudative Retinal Coats-Like Vitreoretinopathy Misdiagnosed as Acute Retinal Necrosis in a Retinitis Pigmentosa Patient after Cataract Surgery. Case Rep Ophthalmol. 2021 Jun 18;12(2):562-568. doi: 10.1159/000516312. PMID: 34248592; PMCID: PMC8255695.
  9. Papasavvas I, Herbort CP Jr. Reactivation of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease under control for more than 6 years, following anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect. 2021 Jul 5;11(1):21. doi: 10.1186/s12348-021-00251-5. PMID: 34224024; PMCID: PMC8256412.
  10. Herbort CP Jr, Arapi I, Papasavvas I, Mantovani A, Jeannin B. Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy (AZOOR) Results from a Clinicopathological Mechanism Different from Choriocapillaritis Diseases: A Multimodal Imaging Analysis. Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 Jun 29;11(7):1184. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11071184. PMID: 34209956; PMCID: PMC8303680.
  11. Herbort CP Jr, Tugal-Tutkun I, Abu-El-Asrar A, Gupta A, Takeuchi M, Fardeau C, Hedayatfar A, Urzua C, Papasavvas I. Precise, simplified diagnostic criteria and optimised management of initial-onset Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease: an updated review. Eye (Lond). 2021 Jun 18. doi: 10.1038/s41433-021-01573-3. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34145419.
  12. Herbort CP Jr, Mantovani A, Tugal-Tutkun I, Papasavvas I. Classification of Non-Infectious and/or Immune Mediated Choroiditis: A Brief Overview of the Essentials. Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 May 24;11(6):939. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11060939. PMID: 34073914; PMCID: PMC8225100.
  13. Papasavvas I, Jeannin B, Herbort CP. When HIV Immunodeficiency and Heterochromia Confuse the Issue: Recurrent Zoster Uveitis Mistaken for Fuchs’ Uveitis. J Ophthalmic Vis Res. 2021 Apr 29;16(2):295-299. doi: 10.18502/jovr.v16i2.9094. PMID: 34055267; PMCID: PMC8126730.
  14. Papasavvas I, Herbort CP Jr. Cytomegalovirus Anterior Uveitis from the Perspective of the Common Practitioner: Missed Diagnosis Can Be at the Origin of Severe Functional Loss – A Scenario to Be Avoided. Klin Monbl Augenheilkd. 2021 Apr;238(4):448-453. English. doi: 10.1055/a-1425-4809. Epub 2021 Apr 30. PMID: 33930916.
  15. Papasavvas I, Gehrig B, Herbort CP Jr. The Comparative Value of Serum Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) and Lysozyme and the Use of Polyclonal Antibody Activation in the Work-up of Ocular Sarcoidosis. Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 Mar 29;11(4):608. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11040608. PMID: 33805490; PMCID: PMC8066732.
  16. Papasavvas I, Herbort CP Jr. Granulomatous Features in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis-Associated Uveitis is Not a Rare Occurrence. Clin Ophthalmol. 2021 Mar 8;15:1055-1059. doi: 10.2147/OPTH.S299436. PMID: 33727787; PMCID: PMC7953884.
  17. Papasavvas I, Gehrig B, Herbort CP Jr. Clinical Course and Treatment Paradigms for JIA-related Uveitis and Pars Planitis Uveitis Using Precise Ocular Investigational Methods. Klin Monbl Augenheilkd. 2021 Apr;238(4):458-468. English. doi: 10.1055/a-1354-6452. Epub 2021 Feb 19. PMID: 33607692.
  18. Papasavvas I, Gehrig B, Herbort CP Jr. Clinical Course and Treatment Paradigms for JIA-related Uveitis and Pars Planitis Uveitis Using Precise Ocular Investigational Methods. Klin Monbl Augenheilkd. 2021 Apr;238(4):458-468. English. doi: 10.1055/a-1354-6452. Epub 2021 Feb 19. PMID: 33607692.
  19. Papasavvas I, Herbort CP Jr. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease is always bilateral: reports of unilateral cases failed to use choroidal investigations showing subclinical involvement of the fellow eye. J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect. 2021 Feb 9;11(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s12348-021-00237-3. PMID: 33559795; PMCID: PMC7873149.
  20. Abouammoh MA, De Simone L, Almousa AN, Al-Dossari M, Herbort CP, Abu El-Asrar AM. Indocyanine green angiographic findings in presumed intraocular tuberculosis. Eye (Lond). 2021 Jun;35(6):1680-1687. doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-01144-y. Epub 2020 Aug 24. PMID: 32839556; PMCID: PMC8169866.
  21. Herbort CP Jr, Tugal-Tutkun I, Mantovani A, Neri P, Khairallah M, Papasavvas I. Advances and potential new developments in imaging techniques for posterior uveitis Part 2: invasive imaging methods. Eye (Lond). 2021 Jan;35(1):52-73. doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-1072-0. Epub 2020 Aug 10. PMID: 32778739; PMCID: PMC7852522.
  22. Tugal-Tutkun I, Herbort CP Jr, Mantovani A, Neri P, Khairallah M. Advances and potential new developments in imaging techniques for posterior uveitis. Part 1: noninvasive imaging methods. Eye (Lond). 2021 Jan;35(1):33-51. doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-1063-1. Epub 2020 Jul 16. PMID: 32678354; PMCID: PMC7852509.