Brief report Coats’ Disease and Cytomegalovirus Infection

Purpose: To evaluate the vascular occlusion in Coats’ disease Methods: In this non-comparative case series, 13 consecutive patients with Coats’ disease from January 2011 to September 2011 were included. The hypercoagulability states were evaluated in these patients. Results: The mean age of the patients in this series was 15.4 years. All but one patient had high anti-Cytomegalovirus antibody (IgG) level and two third of the patients had higher than normal levels of alpha-2 globulin. Conclusions: It seems that there is a possible relation between history of old Cytomegalovirus old infection and ocular vascular changes in Coats’ disease deserving more evaluations in a larger series.