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Bilateral macular hole secondary to remote lightning strike

We report a case of a 16-year-old girl, who was struck by lightning, and experienced blurred vision in the right eye (RE) immediately following the episode. She reported for ophthalmic evaluation two months later. Examination revealed relative afferent pupillary defect in the RE. Posterior subcapsul...

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Autores principales: Rao, Krishna A, Rao, Lavanya G, Kamath, Ajay N, Jain, Vikram
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19861754
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.57156
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description We report a case of a 16-year-old girl, who was struck by lightning, and experienced blurred vision in the right eye (RE) immediately following the episode. She reported for ophthalmic evaluation two months later. Examination revealed relative afferent pupillary defect in the RE. Posterior subcapsular cataract was noted in both eyes. Fundus examination revealed macular holes and multiple areas of RPE hyperpigmentation in the periphery in both eyes. Fundus fluorescein angiography showed increased choroidal transmission with early fluorescence and late fading in the foveal region and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) stippling in the periphery in both eyes. This is the first case report of such nature in India to the best of our knowledge.
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spelling pubmed-28127712010-02-08 Bilateral macular hole secondary to remote lightning strike Rao, Krishna A Rao, Lavanya G Kamath, Ajay N Jain, Vikram Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications We report a case of a 16-year-old girl, who was struck by lightning, and experienced blurred vision in the right eye (RE) immediately following the episode. She reported for ophthalmic evaluation two months later. Examination revealed relative afferent pupillary defect in the RE. Posterior subcapsular cataract was noted in both eyes. Fundus examination revealed macular holes and multiple areas of RPE hyperpigmentation in the periphery in both eyes. Fundus fluorescein angiography showed increased choroidal transmission with early fluorescence and late fading in the foveal region and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) stippling in the periphery in both eyes. This is the first case report of such nature in India to the best of our knowledge. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2812771/ /pubmed/19861754 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.57156 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bilateral macular hole secondary to remote lightning strike
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title_full Bilateral macular hole secondary to remote lightning strike
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title_short Bilateral macular hole secondary to remote lightning strike
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19861754
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.57156
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