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Outcome of Macular Hole Surgery in Bietti Crystalline Dystrophy
Ramin Nourinia1, Mohammad Hossein Dehghan1,2, Sahba Fekri1
1Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Purpose:
To describe a 42-year-old man, a known case of Bietti crystalline dystrophy who underwent surgery for unilateral full thickness macular hole.
Case Report:
Clinical features, color fundus photographs, and optical coherence tomography, electroretinography, and electrooculography findings of the patient are reported. His visual acuity improved from counting fingers to 20/50 after pars plana deep vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling and gas injection.
Conclusion:
Macular hole can occur in Bietti crystalline dystrophy and the post-surgical outcome is good.
