CLINICAL CASE Female in her sixth month of pregnancy, with a history of refractive surgery, who consulted due to a metamorphopsia and decrease in visual acuity in the right eye. A presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS) and a subfoveal choroidal neovascular membrane were observed in the fundoscopy. Two monthly doses of intravitreal bevacizumab were given after the labour, but the third d...

A 16 year old female presented to the New England Eye Center with a chief complaint of decreased vision and metamorphopsia in the left eye. The symptoms started three months prior to presentation and remained unchanged from onset. There were no other visual complaints at the time of presentation. She denied any prior ocular history; this was her first eye exam. On review of systems, there was n...

A 60-year-old male patient admitted to our clinic with complaints of decreased vision, nyctalopia, and metamorphopsia in both eyes, mainly the left eye. The best-corrected visual acuity was determined as 20/25 on right 20/200 eye Snellen chart. Anterior segment examination normal. Fundus revealed chorioretinal atrophic areas bone spicules around all vascular arcades eyes. Optical coherence tomo...

PURPOSE To measure visual acuity and metamorphopsia in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and to explore their relationship with macular lesions. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a total of 32 normal subjects (32 eyes) and 35 AMD patients (35 eyes) were recruited. They were categorized into 4 groups: normal, dry AMD, non-active wet AMD, and active wet AMD. Best-correct...

The epiretinal membrane is a thin sheet of fibrous tissue that can form over the macular area retina, and may result in loss visual acuity or metamorphopsia, due to superficial retinal folds. A vitrectomy surgery, current treatment procedure for this pathology, only performed after symptoms are present. However, sometimes patients do not present any vision improvements surgery. use computationa...

AIM To analyse clinical features of drusenoid pigment epithelium detachment (PED) in age related macular degeneration. METHODS 61 eyes of 32 patients with untreated drusenoid PED were followed for an average of 4.6 years (range 1-17 years). Drusenoid PED was defined as (1/2) disc diameter (DD) of confluent soft drusen under the centre of the macula. All patients underwent visual acuity measur...