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Severe acute vision loss, dyschromatopsia, and changes in the ellipsoid zone on sd-oct associated with intravitreal
Carlos Quezada Ruiz1, Dante J Pieramici, Maʼan Nasir
1California Retina Consultants and Research Foundation, Santa Barbara, California.
Purpose:
To present the long-term follow-up of a patient injected with intravitreal ocriplasmin who experienced severe acute post-intravitreal ocriplasmin complications.
Methods:
Case report.
Results:
A 68-year-old man with vitreomacular traction was treated with intravitreal ocriplasmin. He experienced dyschromatopsia, severe acute visual acuity, and field loss 4 hours after the injection. This was accompanied by decreased reflectivity on spectral domain optical coherence tomography in the ellipsoid zone of the outer retina. These changes were transient, and 3 years after the injection, the patient is asymptomatic and no outer reflectivity changes are noted on his spectral domain optical coherence tomography images.
Conclusion:
Acute visual changes and spectral domain optical coherence tomography hyporeflectivity in the ellipsoid zone after intravitreal ocriplasmin can occur in some individuals, but in this case, these changes were reversible, and there have been no long-term implications.
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