Multimodal Imaging in a Patient with Traumatic Choroidal Ruptures.

PURPOSE: To describe the case and the follow-up of a traumatic choroidal rupture characterized by means of multimodal imaging including color fundus photographs, infrared reflectance, blue autofluorescence, swept-source optical coherence tomography, fluorescein angiography (FA), indocyanine green angiography (ICGA), and optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A). METHODS: Case report. RESULTS: A 17-year-old boy was referred to our clinic complaining of reduction in visual acuity in the right eye (RE) after a blunt ocular trauma during a soccer match. Dilated fundus examination of RE showed 2 peripapillary choroidal ruptures located temporally and inferiorly to the optic disc. Among different imaging tools useful in the diagnosis and study of choroidal ruptures, particular attention must be paid to OCT-A, which showed the lesions as breaks in the choriocapillaris plexus with a hypointense appearance due to the lack of substance. Moreover, along the break it was possible to see the projection of the underlying choroidal vasculature, which appeared hyperintense. The retinal vascular plexa were spared. CONCLUSIONS: All patients presenting with blunt ocular trauma should undergo fundus examination to exclude damage to the optic nerve, retina, and choroid, and need close follow-up to avoid the development of secondary complications such as choroidal neovascularization. Optical coherence tomography angiography might add relevant information in the global evaluation and follow-up of choroidal ruptures in a noninvasive fashion, and could replace other invasive modalities such as FA or ICGA.

Ruptura coroidea y neovascularización coroidea secundarias a trauma con seguimiento de 24 años. Reporte de caso / Choroidal rupture with choroidal neovascularization secondary to trauma. Case report with 24 years follow-up

Objetivo: describir el seguimiento clínico por 24 años de una ruptura coroidea y su neovascularización coroidea secundaria a trauma ocular cerrado. Efectuar una revisión bibliográfica de esta patología. Destacar la importancia de observaciones prolongadas para completar su historia natural. Diseño: reporte de caso no intervencionista. Método: retrospectivo, en caso de trauma ocular cerrado y sus consecuencias estudiadas en seguimiento cuidadoso de 24 años y la ayuda diagnóstica de la tomografía óptica coherente, la fluoroangiografía y el campo visual. Resultado: reconocimiento de glaucoma y catarata que disminuyeron la visión a 20/120 veinticuatro años después de la contusión ocular. Conclusión: La neovascularizacion coroidea secundaria a ruptura coroidea traumática subfoveal aparece en tiempo variable luego de trauma ocular contuso, compromete la recuperación anatómica y visual, y es de pronóstico reservado de acuerdo con su localización según hallazgos en observación prolongada.

Purpose: to describe findings and follow-up for 24 years in a choroidal rupture with secondary choroidal neovascularization following closed ocular trauma. To perform a literature review on this topic. To remark the importance of long follow-up to complete natural history of disease. Design: non-interventional case report. Methods: retrospective, in a case ofbclosed ocular trauma and sequels on a follow-up of 24 years using optical coherence tomography and fl uorescein angiography as diagnostic techniques. Results: recognition of glaucoma, cataract and decreased visual acuity to 20/120. Conclusion: choroidal neovascularization following indirect subfoveal traumatic choroidal rupture may occur in variable time after blunt trauma, affecting ocular structures and visual function with poor prognosis demonstrated on long follow-up.

A Case of Full Thickness Macular Hole Secondary to Old Traumatic Choroidal Rupture

PURPOSE: We report a case of a full-thickness macular hole which occurred many years after a blunt eye trauma leading to choroidal rupture. CASE SUMMARY: A 50-year-old male visited our clinic with a complaint of decreased vision in his left eye 2 years in duration. He experienced a blunt trauma to his left eye with a baseball when he was 6 years old, although he did not complain of any visual disturbance in the left eye at that time. Fundus examination revealed a full-thickness macular hole with vertical fibrotic scar at the temporal side of the macula, which was thought to be a choroidal rupture induced by the previous blunt eye trauma. We performed vitrectomy and intravitreal tamponade injection. Two months later, the full-thickness macular hole completely closed and visual acuity of the left eye improved.