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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 102-103 |
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Multimodal imaging of an isolated retinal venous macroaneurysm
Syed Zohaib Maroof Hussain1, MA Rehman Siddiqui2
1 Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
2 Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital; Department of Ophthalmology, Shahzad Eye Hospital; Department of Ophthalmology, South City Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
| Date of Submission | 11-Oct-2019 |
| Date of Decision | 31-Oct-2019 |
| Date of Acceptance | 01-Apr-2020 |
| Date of Web Publication | 28-May-2020 |
Correspondence Address:
M A Rehman Siddiqui
Aga Khan University Hospital, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800
Pakistan
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DOI: 10.4103/ojo.OJO_231_2019
 Abstract | | |
We report a case of a young male with symptomatic isolated venous macro-aneurysm without any associated systemic disease. Multi modal imaging was useful in making the correct diagnosis. To the best of our knowledge, primary isolated venous macro-aneurysm has not been reported previously.
Keywords: Multimodal imaging, retina and intraretinal edema, venous macroaneurysm
How to cite this article:
Maroof Hussain SZ, Rehman Siddiqui M A. Multimodal imaging of an isolated retinal venous macroaneurysm. Oman J Ophthalmol 2020;13:102-3 |
Macroaneurysm (MA) can be classified into four categories: arterial, capillary, collateral associated, and venous.[1] Venous MAs are further divided into secondary MAs, associated with disease and isolated MAs. Unlike arterial retinal MAs, there is insufficient data about retinal venous MAs.[2] In literature, only three cases of isolated retinal venous MA have been published to date.[3],[4],[5] In all three cases, there were associated conditions. Here, we report the fourth case of isolated venous MA; however, unlike the other three cases, the patient in our case was completely fit and healthy except the blurred vision.
A 45-year-old Asian nonsmoker man with no known comorbids presented with a complaint of gradual blurring of vision in the left eye for the past 6 months. He had no ocular or systemic history, particularly no hypertension. Fundus examination of the left eye showed a circinate arrangement of exudates juxtafoveally [Figure 1]a. Similarly, optical coherence tomography showed hyper-reflective exudates in the middle retinal layers surrounded by hyporeflective intraretinal edema [Figure 1]b and subfoveal localized neurosensory retinal detachment (not shown). A circular lesion with hyper-reflective border was noted in the middle retinal layers (white arrow). This represented saccular dilation of vasculature in the retina. The photoreceptor layer was intact. Fundus fluorescein angiography showed a normal choroidal and arterial phase in the left eye. Venous phase showed pinpoint leakage of the dye at the branching of second-order vein. There was leakage from venous MA, which led to intraretinal edema [Figure 1]c and [Figure 1]d. Of note was the surrounding normal vasculature, ruling out previous vascular occlusion. Examination of the right eye was unremarkable. | Figure 1: (a) Exudates juxtafoveally.(b) Optical coherence tomography showing hyper-reflective exudates and intraretinal edema. (c and d) Fundus fluorescein angiography showing leakage from venous macroaneurysm
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