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Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy A patient with no family history of retinal disease presented to the Bascom Palmer emergency room with 4 days of floaters in her right eye. Her VA was 20/30 and her intraocular pressure was normal. She was found to have vitreous hemorrha…

External Ophthalmomyiasis due to Dermatobia Hominis A child presented with right eye swelling for five days refractory to systemic antibiotics. On examination, he had significant periorbital edema, erythema, injection, a chemosis. At the lateral canthus, a small scab with skin defect was visualized…

Hydrolyzed MIRAgel Scleral Buckle A patient presented with one year of gradually worsening left eye pain and binocular diplopia. He had a history of remote retinal detachment repair in 1988 and prostate cancer in 2019 s/p radiation therapy in remission. In the left eye, he had limitations to gaze i…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Pleomorphic Adenoma A patient with a past ocular history of presumed thyroid eye disease presented with left eye discomfort and left upper eyelid swelling for two days. She endorsed double vision but denied any blurry vision. Her exam was notable for visual acuity of 20/20 in the right eye and 20/2…

Conjunctival Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Keratoacanthoma Type A patient presented with a rapidly enlarging lesion of the nasal conjunctiva of the left eye. The past ocular history was significant only for bilateral surgical removal of cataracts with intraocular lens placement. The patient had a past m…

Post-transplant Interface Infectious Keratitis A patient with past ocular history of pseudoexfoliation syndrome, left eye Descemet’s Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSEK) and left eye scleral fixated intraocular lens after complicated left eye cataract surgery presented to the emergency room …

Refractory Full Thickness Macular Hole A patient presented with a “black central spot” in the right eye. The past ocular history included an idiopathic full thickness macular hole in the right eye that had undergone pars plana vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane peel two times. The left …

CMV Retinitis & Toxoplasmosis Chorioretinitis in HIV/AIDS Patient An adult patient presented to Jackson Memorial Hospital with complaint of blurred vision, fever, abdominal pain, weight loss, and rash. Examination revealed a chorioretinal lesion concerning for toxoplasma chorioretinitis. The pa…