...Lucas Sejournet; Thibaud Mathis; Victor Vermot-Desroches; Rita Serra; Laurent Kodjikian Introduction: Placental-derived amniotic membranes (AM) can be used for both macular holes (MHs) and corneal defects. Here, we present a short report of a recurrent full thickness MH treated with a folded AM...

...Subash Bhatta; Nayana Pant; Nola Pikacha Introduction: The aim of this study was to describe the distinctive optical coherence tomography (OCT) characteristics and the underlying mechanisms, leading to the uncommon occurrence of macular hole (MH) development in ocular toxoplasmosis. Case...

...Yuki Goto; Kazuki Kuniyoshi; Kensuke Goto; Tomoyasu Kayazawa; Taro Kominami; Fukutaro Mano; Masuo Sakamoto; Chiharu Iwahashi; Shunji Kusaka Introduction: Macular hole is a rare complication in patients with retinitis pigmentosa that significantly reduces visual acuity. Although vitreous surgery...

...Maggie Hui; Robert Gunzenhauser; Alexander Dillon; Irena Tsui Introduction: We present a case of a patient with preceding vitreomacular traction (VMT) who developed a full-thickness macular hole (FTMH) following his sixth intravitreal aflibercept injection for the treatment of age-related macular...

...Aiko Haraguchi; Makiko Wakuta; Nobuaki Ariyoshi; Masahiko Funatsu; Yuki Wasai; Manami Ohta; Tadahiko Ogata; Fumiaki Higashijima; Kazuhiro Kimura Introduction: Post-vitrectomy cystoid macular edema (CME) can lead to failure of macular hole (MH) closure. We report 2 cases of failure of MH closure due...

...Sayena Jabbehdari; Pedro S. Tetelbom; David Warner; Sami H. Uwaydat We present a case of unilateral full-thickness macular hole (MH) successfully repaired with an amniotic membrane (AM) graft in a patient with Alport syndrome. A 58-year-old Asian female with past medical history of Alport syndrome...

...Efraim Berco; Sunil Ruparelia; Nir Shoham-Hazon We report on a 55-year-old patient presenting with a 400 μm macular hole which failed to resolve with vitrectomy and internal limited membrane peeling. In accordance with patient wishes to avoid further surgery, subthreshold laser was applied...

...Rika Furukawa; Hisashi Matsubara; Eriko Uchiyama; Masahiko Sugimoto; Mineo Kondo The development of a full-thickness macular hole (FTMH) is a rare complication of intravitreal injections, and only a small subset of eyes with an FTMH has a spontaneous closure. We report a case of repeated FTMH...

...Yukako Iwane; Hisanori Imai; Hiroko Yamada; Yasuyuki Sotani; Mariko Oishi; Makoto Nakamura Recently, good postoperative visual acuity has been reported using surgical removal of hard exudates (HEs) through an intentional macular hole (iMH). We report 3 cases of subfoveal HE secondary to diabetic...

...Masahisa Watanabe; Harumasa Yokota; Hiroshi Aso; Hirotsugu Hanazaki; Junya Hanaguri; Satoru Yamagami; Taiji Nagaoka Herein, we report the longitudinal observation of a case with reopening of the macular hole associated with a lamellar macular hole-associated epiretinal proliferation (LHEP) followed...

...Sergio E. Hernández-Da Mota The purpose of this case report is to describe a chandelier-assisted bimanual autologous retinal transplantation (ART) with air tamponade technique for the treatment of a large macular hole (MH). A patient with a primary chronic large MH, who underwent chandelier...

...Nuria Torrell Belzach; José Ignacio Vela Segarra; Jaume Crespí Vilimelis; Mohammed Alhayek Bilateral macular hole is a rare secondary effect of tamoxifen, a condition which is probably underdiagnosed. We describe the case of a 63-year-old woman who had received low-dose treatment with tamoxifen...

...Luca Ventre; Paola Marolo; Michele Reibaldi The human amniotic membrane (hAM) has lately demonstrated interesting potential in its retinal applications. Nowadays, the treatment of persistent macular holes is still a challenge. In this paper, we present a case of a hAM plug used to treat...

...Yuto Hashimoto; Yusuke Arai; Shinji Makino; Yuji Inoue; Hidenori Takahashi; Hidetoshi Kawashima We report a case of full-thickness macular hole (FTMH) which developed during follow-up for Coats disease. To our knowledge, this is the first report on a case of FTMH which developed during follow-up...

... of the Tano diamond-dusted membrane scrapers during the insertion into valve trocars throughout vitrectomy operations and deposit on the retinal surface or within macular holes. Ophthalmologists should be aware of residual diamond particles during procedures and consider diamond dust retinopathy...

...Masanori Fukumoto; Shou Oosuka; Takaki Sato; Teruyo Kida; Tsunehiko Ikeda In this paper, we report an extremely rare case of spontaneous closure of a macular hole (MH) that developed in a patient in whom acquired vitelliform lesion (AVL) occurred after vitrectomy for atopic retinal detachment (ARD...

...Agnieszka Nowosielska A 72-year-old male treated with aflibercept (Eylea) due to choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in his left eye developed a full-thickness macular hole (MH) after the second injection. The occurrence of MH in his left eye resulted in further visual acuity deterioration...

...Shamfa Peart; Amoy Ramsay; Qazi Assad Khan; Tony Leong; Patel Gordon-Bennett Purpose: To describe the visual and anatomical outcomes in a patient with a full-thickness macular hole and Best vitelliform macular dystrophy. Methods: The authors present a case of a large spontaneous macular hole...

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...Kosuke Nagaoka; Satoru Inoda; Hidenori Takahashi; Yusuke Arai; Yuji Inoue; Yuichi Takizawa; Shinkin Fujioka; Hidetoshi Kawashima We report a case of giant macular hole progression after rupture of giant retinal pigment epithelial detachment (PED). The patient was a 91-year-old man who had a giant...