Overview
Occurs when the immune system attacks the eye’s retina, causing inflammation. The disease is divided between paraneoplastic (immune system response to a cancerous tumor) and non-paraneoplastic (immune system response to something other than a tumor).
Paraneoplastic AIR can be further divided into subtypes:
- Cancer-associated retinopathy (CAR)
- Melanoma-associated retinopathy (MAR)