MACULAR HOLE FORMATION AFTER PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY FOR PRIMARY VITREORETINAL LYMPHOMA
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Masatoshi Haruta1, Chikako Taguchi, Ryoji Yamakawa
1Department of Ophthalmology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
Purpose:
To report a case of primary vitreoretinal lymphoma in which a macular hole developed after a diagnostic pars plana vitrectomy.
Methods:
A retrospective interventional case report.
Results:
A 65-year-old woman presented with worsening vision in the left eye. Fundus examination showed vitreous haze and multifocal, yellow-white infiltrates in the retina and under the retinal pigment epithelium in the left eye. She underwent a diagnostic pars plana vitrectomy in that eye. Undiluted vitreous specimen showed an increased interleukin-10 level (1,470 pg/mL) with an elevated interleukin-10 to interleukin-6 ratio of 15.1; cytologic analysis of the vitreous showed atypical lymphoid cells with large irregular nuclei and scanty cytoplasm. The retinal and sub-retinal pigment epithelial infiltrates responded well to intravitreal methotrexate injections, but a macular hole developed in the left eye. The second pars plana vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane peeling and 20% sulfur hexafluoride gas tamponade successfully closed the macular hole.
Conclusion:
Macular hole closure can be accomplished in eyes receiving intravitreal methotrexate injections for treating primary vitreoretinal lymphoma.
