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Bartonella Retinitis A patient presented to the emergency department with 2 days of floaters and pain with ocular movements. He endorsed exposure to stray cats and being scratched by a kitten. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in both eyes. Anterior segment exam was unremarkable and posterior …

A 6-week old patient presented with persistent fetal vasculature leading to a loss of red reflex due to a congenital cataract. UBM showed an anteriorly rotated ciliary body with a thickened retrolental membrane and a spherically shaped lens. Ultrasound showed a membrane from the optic disc with red…

Achromobacter Xylosoxidans Endophthalmitis A 79-year-old male with history of Fuchs endothelial dystrophy of both eyes s/p penetrating keratoplasty of both eyes (1980s), repeat penetrating keratoplasty of left eye (2018) and regmatogenous retinal detachment of left eye s/p repair with silicon oil w…

B-scan ultrasound shows a well circumscribed mass inferiorly with focal hyper-densities. This can mimic a tumor, but the patient has a history of trauma and the object in question is a dislocated crystalline lens.

Proliferative Sickle Retinopathy A 3-year-old female was referred to BPEI for treatment of congenital cataracts. After bilateral lensectomy and vitrectomy, the patient was noted to have elevated intraocular pressure. She underwent placement of BGI and was incidentally found to have vitreous hemorrh…

Retained Lens Fragment A 61-year-old male referred after complicated cataract extraction surgery (phacoemulsification). On exam he was found to have a large piece of retained nuclear fragment in the inferior vitreous. He underwent PPV along with lens exchange with anterior chamber IOL placement. He…

Silicone oil droplets on a silicone intraocular lens

Suprachoroidal Hemorrhage A 76-year-old male that presented to the retina service at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute with left eye pain and elevated intraocular pressure eleven days status post complicated cataract surgery during which he was left aphakic. Of note, the patient was on Aspirin 81mg daily…

Post LASIK infectious keratitis and pressure-induced stromal keratopathy.

Patient with history of multiple retinal detachments with a phthisis eye. The crystalline lens is noted to have migrated external to the sclera and subconjunctivally.

Stickler Syndrome This presentation describes a teenage patient who presented with bilateral retinal detachments. He has a strong family history of Stickler Syndrome. Additionally, there is a family history of multiple types of cancers, specifically GI cancers. The patient underwent an exam under a…

Penetrating Ocular Fishhook Injury A patient with a history of stroke, hypertension, and pseudophakia of both eyes, presented with eye trauma while fishing without protective eyewear. While reeling in, his fishhook flew out of the water and hit him in the right eye. On presentation, his right eye v…

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.

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…