Abstract
The authors present an acquired and transient retinitis by rubella. The patient was a 17 year old boy. He noticed a central scotoma on his right eye on March 10, 1986. The corrected visual aquity was 1.0 on the right eye and 1.2 on the left eye. The scotoma was very slight on the Komoto scotometer. Fundus examination revealed multiple small yellow white dots on the mid-periphery of the right retina, which were seen only on nasal and temporal side. On the posterior pole, there was a sheath on the supero-temporal vessels. The macula was granular and no foveal reflex. ERG revealed the reduction of the oscillatory potentials. The symptoms were transient and disappeared in two months. The antibody titer of rubella elevated from ×32 on May 28 to ×128 on April 18. This case was one of the multiple evanescent white dot syndrome by rubella. It seems that acquired rubella retinitis is not a so uncommon disease.
