Purpose: To examine the efficacy and clinical characteristics of successful full-thickness macular hole closure with topical therapy.
Methods: Retrospective case series of full-thickness macular holes managed by...
Medical History:
A 30-year-female patient presented to our clinic complaining of decreased vision in the left eye.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma...
Looking at the multicolor, fundus autofluorescence and optical coherence tomography images, could you tell the diagnosis and identify the OCT finding in this 65-year-old...
Khanna and co-workers aimed to investigate if metformin use reduces the odds of developing new neovascular AMD (nAMD). This is a case–control study of 86,930 subjects with new diagnoses of nAMD and 86,918 matched...
Medical History:
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
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Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 10/10 in the right eye and counting fingers at 1 meter in the left eye. Intraocular pressure was...
Medical History:
A 16-year-male patient presented to our clinic for an annual examination.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 9/10 in the right eye and 9/10 in the...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, tell the diagnosis by looking multimodal images in 45-year-old male was desired.
The...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, tell the diagnosis by looking multimodal images in 10-year-old male was desired.
The...
Medical History:
A 15-year-old female patient presented to our clinic complaining of decreased vision in the left eye.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 10/10 in the right...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, tell the diagnosis by looking multimodal images in 19-year-old male was desired.
The...
Purpose: To determine the longitudinal changes in the morphologic features of dome-shaped macula in highly myopic eyes.
Methods: Patients with a dome-shaped macula and high myopia (spherical equivalent <-8 diopters or axial length ≥26.5 mm) were...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, tell the diagnosis by looking multimodal images in 37-year-old male was desired.
The...
Purpose: To investigate the imaging features preceding the occurrence of type 3 (T3) macular neovascularization (MNV) using tracked spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).
Method: From a cohort of eyes with T3 MNV and ≥ 12 months of...
Medical History:
An 85-year-old female patient presented to our clinic complaining of decreased vision.
Diabetes mellitus (+)
Systemic hypertension (+)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 8/10 in the right eye and 8/10 in...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, tell the diagnosis by looking multimodal images in 84-year-old...
Purpose: To investigate the characteristics and natural history of treatment-naïve non-exudative polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) and to determine biomarkers predicting exudative conversion.
Methods: Patients diagnosed with non-exudative PCV based on indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) and optical coherence...
Medical History:
A 74-year-old female patient with a history of bilateral age related macular degeneration presents complaining of decreased vision in her left eye.
Diabetes mellitus (+)
Systemic hypertension (+)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual...
Purpose: To investigate the development and progression patterns of macular neovascularization (MNV)-related atrophies in eyes with pathologic myopia (PM).
Methods: Twenty-seven eyes of 26 patients with MNV followed from its onset to progression to macular...
Medical History:
An 26-year-old male patient with a history of Best vitelliform macular dystrophy presents for an examination complaining of decreased vision.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (+)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 8/10...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, tell the diagnosis by looking multimodal images in 50-year-old female was desired.
The...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, identify the OCT finding in this young male patient with lysosomal storage...
Spaide and Vavvas aimed to evaluate available rationale and outcomes of randomized trial results for complement inhibition for geographic atrophy. Data from recently completed randomized trials of complement inhibition, particularly for pegcetacoplan and avacincaptad...
Purpose: To evaluate the long-term progression pattern of myopic tractional maculopathy and the risk factors.
Methods: The prevalence and grade of myopic tractional maculopathy were assessed with optical coherence tomography at enrollment and at the 2-year follow-up....
Medical History:
A 40-year-old male patient presented with complaint of blurred vision in his right eye.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 9/10 in the right eye and 10/10...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, tell the diagnosis and identify the OCT finding in this young male...
Medical History:
An 84-year-old female patient with a history of dry age related macular degeneration in both eyes presents for an examination complaining of decreased vision.
Diabetes mellitus (+)
Systemic hypertension (+)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected...
Purpose: To investigate predictors of recurrent exudation in choroidal neovascularization (CNV) of pachychoroid neovasculopathy (PNV) after photodynamic therapy (PDT).
Methods: Consecutive, treatment-naïve, symptomatic patients with PNV with subfoveal retinal fluid (SRF) treated with PDT and followed for...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, identify the OCT finding in patient with Wyburn-Mason Syndrome was desired.
The answer...
Purpose: To evaluate visual acuity and morphologic changes after photobiomodulation (PBM) for patients affected with large soft drusen and/or drusenoid pigment epithelial detachment (dPED) associated to dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Method: Twenty eyes with...
Medical History:
A 67-year-female patient presented to our clinic for an annual examination.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 10/10 in the right eye and 10/10 in the left...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, tell the diagnosis by looking OCT and multicolor images was desired.
The answer...
Purpose: To analyze the clinical characteristics of drusenoid pigment epithelial detachment (PED) with subretinal fluid (SRF) and to evaluate the impact of SRF on the long-term visual and anatomical outcomes.
Methods: Forty-seven eyes with drusenoid...
Medical History:
A 45-year-male patient presented to our clinic for an annual examination.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 9/10 in the right eye and 9/10 in the left...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, tell the diagnosis by looking OCT and FAF images was desired.
The answer...
Purpose: A retrospective study was performed with data from the prospective randomized controlled trials, PLACE and SPECTRA, assessing the risk of foveal atrophy and the likelihood of structural and functional improvement on optical coherence tomography,...
Medical History:
A 20-year-old male patient presented with a complaint of decreased vision after blunt trauma in his left eye.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (+)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 10/10 in the...
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, tell the diagnosis by looking OCT and OCTA images was desired.
The answer to the question is...
Medical History:
A 50-year-old female patient presented with complaint of vision loss in the left eye.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity was 10/10 in the right eye and 5/10...
Purpose: To investigate the predisposing clinical parameters and characteristics of fundus imaging of patients with persistent subretinal fluid (PSF) after successful repair of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
Methods: A retrospective study recruiting 57 patients was conducted....
Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month's question, identify the OCT finding in patient with branch retinal vein occlusion was desired.
The answer to the...
Park and co-workers aimed to compare the progression of myopic maculopathy with or without vitrectomy in patients with myopic traction maculopathy. Seventy-seven eyes with MTM were classified into either the observation group (n =...
Purpose: To evaluate the association of posterior vitreous opacities (PVO) on optical coherence tomography (OCT) with retinal tears identified on exam, in patients with acute, symptomatic posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).
Method: Data was retrospectively collected...
Medical History:
A 25-year-old female patient presented with complaint of vision loss in the right eye. She was accidentally exposed to a cosmetic laser.
Diabetes mellitus (-)
Systemic hypertension (-)
Family history (-)
Smoking (-)
Trauma (-)
Examination Findings
Best corrected visual acuity...
