TY - JOUR
T1 - Subretinal pseudocysts
T2 - A novel OCT finding in diabetic macular edema
AU - Sacconi, Riccardo
AU - Lutty, Gerard A.
AU - Mullins, Robert F.
AU - Borrelli, Enrico
AU - Bandello, Francesco
AU - Querques, Giuseppe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - Purpose: to report the presence of a new structural optical coherence tomography (OCT) finding, namely subretinal pseudocysts, in a patient affected by diabetic retinopathy (DR). Observations: A 52-year-old man affected by type 2 diabetes from 10 years was referred to our department complaining of a visual decline in both eyes. Best corrected visual acuity was 20/100 and 20/80 in the right and left eye, respectively. Fundus examination, fluorescein angiography, and structural OCT revealed the presence of a proliferative DR with diabetic macular edema in both eyes. Interestingly, structural OCT showed subretinal pseudocystic spaces inside the subretinal fluid of the macular neuroretinal detachment. Conclusions and importance: Subretinal pseudocysts are a new structural OCT entity. We reported for the first time the evidence that pseudocysts may develop in the subretinal space in a case of diabetic macular edema.
AB - Purpose: to report the presence of a new structural optical coherence tomography (OCT) finding, namely subretinal pseudocysts, in a patient affected by diabetic retinopathy (DR). Observations: A 52-year-old man affected by type 2 diabetes from 10 years was referred to our department complaining of a visual decline in both eyes. Best corrected visual acuity was 20/100 and 20/80 in the right and left eye, respectively. Fundus examination, fluorescein angiography, and structural OCT revealed the presence of a proliferative DR with diabetic macular edema in both eyes. Interestingly, structural OCT showed subretinal pseudocystic spaces inside the subretinal fluid of the macular neuroretinal detachment. Conclusions and importance: Subretinal pseudocysts are a new structural OCT entity. We reported for the first time the evidence that pseudocysts may develop in the subretinal space in a case of diabetic macular edema.
KW - Diabetic macular edema
KW - Diabetic retinopathy
KW - Optical coherence tomography
KW - Optical coherence tomography angiography
KW - Subretinal pseudocysts
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ajoc.2019.100567
DO - 10.1016/j.ajoc.2019.100567
M3 - Article
C2 - 31788575
AN - SCOPUS:85074820528
SN - 2451-9936
VL - 16
JO - American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports
JF - American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports
M1 - 100567
ER -