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| ID | DOID:14230 |
| Name | scleromalacia perforans |
| Definition | A scleral disease that is characterized by a painless severe necrotizing scleritis where the sclera is white, avascular, and thin. The choroid can become exposed leading to infarction and necrosis of related areas; the sclera can also thin such that the dark uvea protrudes through the front of the eye, forming a staphyloma which has_symptom loss of vision and appearance of a dark bulge. Scleromalacia perforans is usually caused by a rare complication of autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5987604/, https://eyewiki.aao.org/Scleritis |
| Xrefs |
SNOMEDCT_US_2023_03_01:26664005 |
| Parent Relationships |
is_a scleral disease |
| Subclass Logical Relationships |
has symptom some necrosis has symptom some loss of vision |