Ulcerative colitis is a chronic, inflammatory disease of colon which is rare in Korea.
In the course of ulcerative colitis numerous extraintestinal complication may develop on the joints, skin, liver, kidney, vessel, oral cavity land eyes. The most common ocular lesions complicated I patients with ulcerative colitis are
episcleritis
and
iritis. And the cases of retinal vascular disease in associated with ulcerative colitis are extremely rare.
We experienced nonischemic central retinal vein occlusion complicated in a patients with ulcerative colitis, who is 32-year-old male and complained decreased visual acuity and metamorphosis.
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