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    • Disease Similarities Characteristics
      AS Subclinical involvement
      DCP vulnerability
      FAZ alterations
      Systemic correlations      		 Associated with cardiovascular disease risk;
      Sex-specific disparity (More pronounced in males).
      RA Distinguishing disease-related microvasculopathy from HCQ toxicity.
      BD Occlusive vasculitis hallmark;
      Retina-conjunctival vascular dichotomy;
      Irreversible DCP damage: Critical for visual prognosis.
      SSc Early choroidal involvement (primary target from VEDOSS stage);
      Systemic microcirculatory synchrony (nailfold capillaroscopy & skin score);
      Choroidal perfusion-thickness dissociation(reduced perfusion with increased thickness due to fibrosis).
      VKH Stage-specific progression: From acute choroidal ischemia to chronic microvascular rarefaction/remodeling;
      Sensitive treatment response (Improvement evident within two weeks);
      Early response predicts long-term complications.
      Psoriasis Microvascular damage correlates with skin disease severity (PASI score);
      Comorbidity additive effect (Markedly worse with PsA or MetS).
      SS Anterior segment vascular abnormality (Local chronic inflammatory marker: Increased conjunctival vessel density, correlates with disease duration/complement levels).
      SLE Strong correlation with severe systemic complications (lupus nephritis, neuropsychiatric SLE, subclinical atherosclerosis)
      DM Juvenile DM (JDM): Early selective DCP involvement;
      Adult DM: Retinal atrophy with concomitant hypoperfusion.

      Table 1. 

      Similarities and characteristics of ocular microvascular alterations.