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How do you manage Cancer-Associated Retinopathy (CAR) in a patient who doesn’t have a known cancer diagnosis, given the difficulty in finding the underlying cancer and the risks of using immunosuppressive treatments to preserve vision?

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Ophthalmology · University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Auto-immune retinopathy, whether paraneoplastic or non-paraneoplastic, can be a very difficult condition to diagnose and manage. There are a few features that raise suspicion for a paraneoplastic cause particularly, such as rapid progression and more significant intraocular inflammation (anterior ch...

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How do you manage Cancer-Associated Retinopathy (CAR) in a patient who doesn’t have a known cancer diagnosis, given the difficulty in finding the underlying cancer and the risks of using immunosuppressive treatments to preserve vision? | Mednet