Subretinal pseudocysts: A novel OCT finding in diabetic macular edema

PURPOSE: to report the presence of a new structural optical coherence tomography (OCT) finding, namely subretinal pseudocysts, in a patient affected by diabetic retinopathy (DR). OBSERVATIONS: A 52-year-old man affected by type 2 diabetes from 10 years was referred to our department complaining of a...

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Autores principales: Sacconi, Riccardo, Lutty, Gerard A., Mullins, Robert F., Borrelli, Enrico, Bandello, Francesco, Querques, Giuseppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2019.100567
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Sumario:PURPOSE: to report the presence of a new structural optical coherence tomography (OCT) finding, namely subretinal pseudocysts, in a patient affected by diabetic retinopathy (DR). OBSERVATIONS: A 52-year-old man affected by type 2 diabetes from 10 years was referred to our department complaining of a visual decline in both eyes. Best corrected visual acuity was 20/100 and 20/80 in the right and left eye, respectively. Fundus examination, fluorescein angiography, and structural OCT revealed the presence of a proliferative DR with diabetic macular edema in both eyes. Interestingly, structural OCT showed subretinal pseudocystic spaces inside the subretinal fluid of the macular neuroretinal detachment. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPORTANCE: Subretinal pseudocysts are a new structural OCT entity. We reported for the first time the evidence that pseudocysts may develop in the subretinal space in a case of diabetic macular edema.

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