Title

PERIPHERAL EXUDATIVE HEMORRHAGIC CHORIORETINOPATHY

Summary

An 83-year-old female patient presents at the retina ambulatory with a complaint of low visual acuity in the left eye that started 6 months ago. The patient has systemic hypertension and had phacoemulsification surgery in both eyes 8 years ago. The ophthalmologic examination shows visual acuity of 20/30 in the right eye and 20/100 in the left eye, with clear conjunctiva, clear cornea and topic IOL OU. The fundoscopy showed hemorrhagic lesions with exsudation in the periphery of both eyes, more evident in the temporal retina, in the left eye there was also a thickening in the macula. hemorrhagicIt was made a diagnostic hypothesis of Peripheral exudative hemorragic chorioretinopathy with macular edema in the left eye. After discussion it was decided to only observe instead of doing anti-VEGF injections, and after 2 months the patient presented an edema regression at OCT with improvement of visual acuity to 20/50.

Area

CLINICAL CASE

Authors

Felipe Muralha