Walsh & Hoyt: Neuroretinitis

In 1916, Theodore Leber described a condition characterized by acute unilateral visual loss associated with an exudative maculopathy consisting of hardexud ates arranged in a star figure aroundthe fovea. Leber believed that the condition was a primary retinal process andcalledit a stellate maculopathy. The condition subsequently became known as Lebers stellate maculopathy until 1977, when Gass reportedthat patients with the condition showedswelling of the optic disc before andoften concurrent with the appearance of the star figure. The optic disc swelling then resolved, leaving the maculopathy as the primary or sole ophthalmoscopic abnormality.