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Toxoplasmosis Chorioretinitis A patient with no known past medical or ocular history presents with 1 week of redness and sudden, painless vision loss in the right eye. In the right eye, exam was notable for visual acuity CF, a relative afferent pupillary defect, 3+ anterior chamber cell, 3+ vitreou…

Examples of Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy.

Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy A child presents to the retina clinic for exotropia. He has no relevant past birth, medical or family history, except that his maternal uncle was blind. His anterior segment exam is normal. Macular dragging with straightening of vessels is noted in the left eye.…

Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type-1 Associated Adult T-Cell Lymphoma with Vitreoretinal Infiltration Our patient with a history of HTLV-1 related lymphoma who was in remission for several years presented with decreased vision in the right eye for about 1 week. Initial visual acuity was 20/50 in the r…

A patient with atypical presentation of toxoplasma chorioretinitis. Ultra wide field color fundus photograph showing a peripheral retinal whitening with patchy areas of active inflammation underlying a grade 2 vitreous haze in the left eye at presentation. The patient was initially suspected of acu…

Macular Telangiectasia Type 1 - Torpedo Maculopathy This is a case of a middle-aged man presenting with a decrease in vision in his left eye for a period of 2 months. On fundus examination the patient presented with a pigmented macular asymptomatic lesion in the right eye and vascular telangiectasi…

Toxoplasma Chorioretinitis of Left Eye An elderly patient presented with painless decreased vision in the left eye for 1 week while on chemotherapy for stage 3 non-metastatic breast cancer. A review of systems showed a recent foot infection and fungal dermatitis. Prior to presentation, the patient …

Chronic CRVO with Diffuse Exudates A patient presents with vision loss in both eyes that progressively worsens over the course of 11 months to bilateral diffuse exudates with a unilateral exudative retinal detachment. Medical history was most significant for recurrent chronic pancreatitis, hypercho…

Retinal Detachment Associated with Retinal Dialysis A soccer player presented to the Bascom Palmer Emergency Department after failing a driver’s test. Past medical history was unremarkable. Exam was notable for visual acuity of 20/20 in the right eye and 20/300 in the left eye. Intraocular pressu…

Best Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy A patient presented to the clinic after years of progressive blurry vision. The patient reported that at the age of 5 while he lived abroad, that he had a retinal scar, but he was asymptomatic at that time. The patient tried wearing glasses over the years, but the…

Fundus photograph of the left eye demonstrating macular telangiectasia with surrounding exudates in the fovea and temporal macula.

MacTel Type 1 A patient presented with chronic cystoid macular edema (CME) in the left eye. His BCVA OS was 20/60. Despite prior long-term interventions with intravitreal steroids and anti-VEGF agents (ranibizumab and aflibercept), the macular edema persisted, prompting the exploration of alternati…

Myopic Traction Maculopathy This is a case of an elderly woman with pathologic myopia referred for asymptomatic worsening macular schisis in the right eye on optical coherence tomography (OCT). Fundus examination showed pathologic myopia and a posterior pole staphyloma. She was diagnosed with myopi…

Paracentral Acute Middle Maculopathy (PAMM) Associated with Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome and impending Central Retinal Vein Occlusion We report a case of paracentral acute middle maculopathy (PAMM) associated antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, and impending central retinal vein occlusion (CR…

Secondary Vitreoretinal Lymphoma A patient presented to the clinic with two years of intermittent blurry vision and vitreous hemorrhage of the left eye. Shortly before presentation, he had been diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma based on biopsy of an enlarged axillary lymph node. The pati…

Non-Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Retinopathy A patient presented to the uveitis clinic for progressively decreasing vision in both eyes. She first noticed difficulty in seeing at night and later also developed flashes and halos of light. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/40 in the right eye and 20/8…