Long-term observations of patients with acute retinal pigment epitheliitis.

Because of some authors presumptions that acute retinal pigment epitheliitis is not a distinct clinical entity but the early stage of other fundus diseases, the results of long-term observations of 5 patients with this disease are reported. The results of 6- to 7-year observations of these patients have shown that in none of them the fundus lesions developed into other retinal diseases. This indicates that acute retinal pigment epitheliitis is a distinct clinical entity.