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Ophthalmia Nodosa A patient presented to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute retina/uveitis clinic with 2 months of right eye irritation and floaters. He reported being hit in the right eye by a large flying insect while working on a cruise ship in the Bahamas immediately prior to the onset of symptoms…

Tuberculous Serpiginous-like Choroiditis A patient with a past ocular history of cataract extraction and YAG capsulotomy presented with chronic blurry vision, photopsia, and floaters in both eyes of 1 year duration. He had been prescribed topical steroids for cystoid macular edema in the left eye a…

A presumed moth setae was identified in the anterior vitreous cavity of a patient with uveitis following ocular trauma by a flying insect. The multifocal keratitis and vitreous opacities improved following two weeks of high-dose oral prednisone.

Aspergillus Keratitis A patient with a history of eye trauma with metallic foreign body presented with pain and blurry vision and was found to have severe Aspergillus infectious keratitis. He continued to progress despite topical, systemic, and intrastromal anti-fungal therapy. He was initially tre…

Bilateral Dense White Cataracts This is a patient with significant complex medical history who presented with hand motion vision secondary to bilateral dense white cataracts. Due to high anesthesia risk given the severity of medial comorbidities including an implanted left ventricular assist device…

Uveitis-Glaucoma-Hyphema (UGH) Syndrome A patient with a past ocular history of pseudophakia in both eyes, pseudoexfoliation glaucoma in both eyes, pseudophakic bullous keratopathy in the left eye, and persistent cystoid macular edema in the left eye, presented for evaluation for endothelial kerato…

Acute Posterior Multifocal Placoid Pigment Epitheliopathy A patient presented with one week of blurred vision. He noted a concomitant headache and cold symptoms as well. He had a history of IV drug use 10 days prior. His visual acuity was 20/100 in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye. Examinati…

Coats' Plus Disease An infant born prematurely via emergency cesarean section at 27-weeks due to IUGR and fetal distress weighting 650 g was referred for the evaluation of incomplete vascularization of the retina. After birth, the patient spent 117 days in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), w…

Fundus photo demonstrating confluent creamy yellow-white lesions representing acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy.

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A 50-year-old patient presenting asymptomatically with 20/30 vision was found to have yellow outer retinal lesions bright on autofluorescence. Genetic testing confirmed a mutation in the RDS gene. Often this can simulate Stargardt’s disease which has a mutation in the ABCA4 gene. There is no trea…

C2orf71 Retinitis Pigmentosa A patient presents to the neuro-ophthalmology clinic for evaluation of chronic progressive vision loss over many years. There is high suspicion for a genetic disorder given findings of bilateral symmetric nerve pallor, diffuse chorioretinal atrophy, and attenuated vascu…

Extra-Parenchymal Neurocysticercosis (NCC) A patient presented with blurry vision and headaches for 6 months. He was found to have grade 5 papilledema with hemorrhages. MRI brain/orbits showed bilateral flattening of the posterior sclera with intraocular protrusion of the optic nerve head and promi…

Bartonella Henselae Neuroretinitis and Branch Retinal Artery Occlusion A patient with past ocular history of viral conjunctivitis presented with 2 weeks of decreased vision in the right eye. His exam was notable for visual acuity of 20/80+1 in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye. Intraocular pr…

Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy A patient presented to the Bascom Palmer Emergency Department with acute onset painless decreased vision in the right eye after awaking from sleep. The patient was found to have unilateral optic disc edema in the right eye. Visual acuity was 20/20 in…

A patient with ocular Bartonella henselae infection manifesting as neuroretinitis and branch retinal artery occlusion.

Canthaxanthin Crystalline Retinopathy A patient presents with a history of progressive blurry vision in her left eye for two years. She has no significant past medical history except for consuming an over-the-counter oral tanning agent for a period of seven years that was discontinued three years p…