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Bilateral Mycobacterium Tuberculosis-Associated Necrotizing Kerato Sclerouveitis Complicated by Bilateral Corneoscleral Perforation and Uveal Prolapse A patient presented from the Bahamas with 5-month history of redness, worsening eye pain, and 5 days of decreasing vision with enlarging “red spot…

Ciliochoroidal Melanoma with Extraocular Extension Complicated by Sympathetic Ophthalmia A patient presented with a pigmented conjunctival lesion in the right eye of insidious onset and progressive course. She was found to have a ciliochoroidal melanoma with extraocular extension and underwent exci…

Juvenile X-linked Retinoschisis A pediatric patient with a past medical history of Kawasaki disease presents for retinal evaluation of reported vitreous hemorrhage in the right eye and retinal detachment in the left eye. The visual acuity was 20/200 in the right eye and 20/800 in the left eye. The …

Acute Macular Neuroretinopathy A young patient presents with acute onset of blurry vision and scotoma. Visual acuity is 20/25 in both eyes. Exam reveals hypopigmented patches in the macula of both eyes, as well as a flame hemorrhage in the left. Imaging reveals disruption of the outer plexiform, ou…

Acute Syphilitic Posterior Placoid Chorioretinitis A 56-year-old Hispanic male with past medical history of gout presented to the emergency room with a “purple spot” in his right eye for the last four days. Examination was significant for best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) 20/70, no anterior c…

Acute Syphilitic Posterior Placoid Uveitis An adult patient presented to the Bascom Palmer emergency room for evaluation of five days of bilateral painless vision loss and floaters. On slit lamp examination he did not have any conjunctival injection or anterior chamber cell or flare. Dilated fundus…

Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy (AZOOR) A patient with a history of photopsias in the left eye for approximately 20 years comes for evaluation due to photopsias now involving both eyes. Concomitantly, the patient also notices scotomas in both eyes. Infectious, immune, and degenerative retinopa…

Central Serous Chorioretinopathy We present the case of a patient with decreased vision in the right eye. The patient immigrated to the United States in 2015, and discovered his decreased vision during an eye exam for a driver’s license. He was diagnosed with Wet AMD and had received 5-6 doses of…

CMV Retinitis A patient with a past ocular history of POAG s/p phaco/trab OD and BGI OS, and ERM OS with macular edema OS receiving intravitreal Dexamethasone injections since 2017 presented with left eye redness, decreased VA, and pain for 4 days. He reported no history of trauma, no recent hospit…

CMV Retinitis, Right Eye A patient with no past ocular history presented with right eye pain, redness, photophobia, decreased vision for a week. His exam was notable for visual acuity 20/50 in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye. Intra-ocular pressure was 20 and 17 mmHg. The slit-lamp exam was …

Cystoid Macular Edema (CME) A patient presents with recent blurry vision OS. VA 20/200 OD and 20/25 OS. Exam significant for macular scar OD and macular edema OS. Imaging workup significant for OCT showing intra-retinal fluid and VMT OS, SS-OCTA OS showed CNV. Patient started on Aflibercept injecti…

Endophthalmitis from Globe Perforation During Bilateral Upper/Lower Blepharoplasty A patient presented to the BPEI emergency room on referral for iritis and uveitis in the right eye, approximately four weeks after she underwent a bilateral upper and lower blepharoplasty in the community. Examinatio…

Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration A patient with neovascular age-related macular degeneration in both eyes has been receiving intravitreal aflibercept in her left eye every 4-5 weeks, for more than 10 years. Whenever the interval between the intravitreal injections was increased there was …

Macular Neovascularization Secondary to Best Disease in a Pregnant Female A patient with a history of Best Disease mutation in BEST1 presented with a sudden onset of blurriness and distortion in her left eye (OS) for three weeks. The patient's family history reveals genetic and visual implications,…

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…

Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Retinopathy A patient with a history of advanced ovarian cancer presented with flashes, glare and peripheral visual field loss of 10 months duration. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/30 in the right eye and 20/40 in the left eye with normal intraocular pressures in both…

Pentosan Polysulfate Maculopathy A patient presented to Bascom Palmer Eye Institute complaining of slowly progressive vision loss in both eyes occurring over several years. Examination revealed 20/25, 20/30 vision, bilateral hyperpigmented mottling in the posterior pole. Fundus autofluorescence sho…

Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy This is a case of a patient with 3 years of blurry vision. He was diagnosed with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy by an outside physician and was receiving monthly aflibercept injections with documented worsening of vision and appearance on OCT. ICG was repeated o…

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 …

Sorsby Macular Dystrophy We present the case of a 33-year-old male who presented with visual distortions in the left eye. Visual acuity was 20/20 in the right eye and 20/30 in the left eye. Fundus examination revealed reticular pseudodrusen in both eyes, and a choroidal neovascular membrane in the …