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Abstract #19824 Published in IGR 9-4
Retinal redetachment involving a macular hole resulting from hypotony after trabeculectomy in a highly myopic eye
Higashide T; Nishimura A; Torisaki M; Sugiyama KOphthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging 2007; 38: 406-409
A 57-year-old woman with high myopia underwent trabeculectomy 21 months after a successful vitrectomy with peeling of the internal limiting membrane to treat a bullous retinal detachment associated with a macular hole. A shallow retinal detachment involving the macular hole developed on the sixth postoperative day after a three-day period of hypotony. This case was unique because recurrence of the retinal detachment involving a macular hole in a highly myopic eye occurred in association with hypotony after glaucoma filtering surgery, with the retinal detachment resolving spontaneously following normalization of intraocular pressure even though the macular hole remained open.
Dr. T. Higashide, Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 9208641, Japan
Classification:
12.8.11 Complications, endophthalmitis (Part of: 12 Surgical treatment > 12.8 Filtering surgery)
8.1 Myopia (Part of: 8 Refractive errors in relation to glaucoma)
9.4.5.5 Other (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.4 Glaucomas associated with other ocular and systemic disorders > 9.4.5 Glaucomas associated with disorders of the retina, choroid and vitreous)