BACKGROUND Intravitreal injection is widely used to treat retinal vein occlusion, and acute angle closure (AAC) is an exceptional complication of intravitreal injection. The authors report a case of AAC that occurred immediately after administering intravitreal bevacizumab to treat branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO). CASE PRESENTATION A 65-year-old woman was referred to the retina clinic of...

In May 2008, a 21-year-old single, non-obese, diabetic lady was referred to our clinic for routine eye examinations. The patient had been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus three months earlier and was receiving 100 milligrams of metformin daily and 80 milligrams of gliclazide twice daily orally, consistently maintaining her blood glucose levels between 72-90 mg/dl. She had a positive family hist...

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CASE PRESENTATION A 65-year-old woman presented with decreased vision in both eyes of 2 months’ duration. She reported no history of systemic disorders. Visual acuity (VA) was 20/200 in her right and 20/400 in her left eye. Slit lamp examination was unremarkable and intraocular pressure was normal. On fundus examination, an elevated lesion was noted in the macula in both eyes. Figures show colo...

This report describes a case of unilateral myelinated retinal nerve fibers associated with ipsilateral myopia and amblyopia. A 9-year-old girl presented with the complaint of diminished vision in her left eye for several years. Her bestcorrected visual acuity was 1.2 in the right eye and 0.06 in the left eye. The refractive error was -0.25D and -4.00D in the right and left eyes, respectively. F...

PURPOSE To report the presence of retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP) in an eye with cuticular drusen detected by fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography by confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy and by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). METHODS Case report of a 65-year-old Japanese woman with cuticular drusen. RESULTS At her first ophthalmic examination, her v...

A 40 year-old woman was referred to a refractive surgery clinic complaining of blurred vision and photophobia. She had undergone myopic LASIK 8 years ago. There had been no problem one year after surgery with best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 20/20 at that time. Her complaints started gradually and progressed thereafter. She had no history of systemic disease including diabetes mellitus an...

INTRODUCTION We describe a case of giant cell arteritis in a woman who was treated with high-dose systemic corticosteroids and subsequently developed acute pancreatitis. CASE PRESENTATION A 78-year-old Caucasian woman presented with four weeks of progressive headache and scalp tenderness. One day before ophthalmology assessment, she had experienced visual obscurations in both eyes. Her visual...

A 68 YEAR OLD married woman was admitted to the Ulster Hospital, Belfast in October 1975 with a one month history of generalized crampy abdominal pain, abdominal swelling and increasing constipation. She had a myocardial infarction in 1969 and a hemiplegia in 1972 and had recovered well from each. She had been on treatment with practolol for three years for hypertension. In 1974 she attended an...