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Abstract #19196 Published in IGR 3-1

Serous retinal detachment and cystoid macular edema in hypotony maculopathy

Kokame GT; De Leon MD; Tanji T
American Journal of Ophthalmology 2001; 131: 384-386


PURPOSE: To report the foveal structural findings of hypotony maculopathy imaged with optical coherence tomography. METHODS: Case report of a 39-year-old white woman with a 20-year history of uveitis, who underwent pars plana vitrectomy and pars plana Baerveldt implant for intractable glaucoma. Four months postoperatively, decreased vision and hypotony maculopathy ensued. Optical coherence tomographic (OCT) images were taken horizontally through the macula. RESULTS: OCT demonstrated large intraretinal cysts, serous macular detachment, and choroidal folds, which resolved upon resolution of hypotony. CONCLUSIONS: Cystic macular changes and serous macular detachment can be prominent features of hypotony maculopathy.

Dr G.T. Kokame, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA


Classification:

12.8.11 Complications, endophthalmitis (Part of: 12 Surgical treatment > 12.8 Filtering surgery)



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