Imaging Case Report

Intraoperative OCT of a Full-Thickness Macular Hole Before and After Internal Limiting Membrane Peeling

Charles C. Wykoff, MD, PhD; Audina M. Berrocal, MD; Amy C. Schefler, MD; Stephen R. Uhlhorn, PhD; Marco Ruggeri, MS; Ditte Hess, CRA

  • Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging
  • January/February 2010 - Volume 41 · Issue 1: 7-11
  • DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20091230-01
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Abstract

A child with a traumatic full-thickness macular hole was imaged perioperatively using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). Intraoperative imaging using a portable SD-OCT device equipped with a handheld probe demonstrated the full-thickness macular hole to be nearly completely closed following vitrectomy and internal limiting membrane peeling. Air was used as a tamponade agent and prone positioning was used postoperatively for 2 days. SD-OCT imaging confirmed closure of the full-thickness macular hole 5 days and 1 month postoperatively.

AUTHORS

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.

Supported by the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation (CCW), National Institutes of Health center grant P30-EY014801, and an unrestricted grant to the University of Miami from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., New York, New York. Funding sources had no role in design or conduct of this research.

The authors have no financial or proprietary interest in the materials presented herein.

Address correspondence to Audina M. Berrocal, MD, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, 900 NW 17th Street, Miami, FL 33136.

doi: 10.3928/15428877-20091230-01

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