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