Acute bilateral blindness due to diffuse outer retinopathy following clear lens exchange: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As the trend of refractive lens exchange for presbyopia continues to grow, our case report shows the first occurrence of an acute bilateral outer retinopathy following uncomplicated sequential clear lens extraction in an otherwise healthy individual.

Case presentation

A 54-year-old male without significant medical history benefited from a sequential bilateral lens exchange for presbyopia. He then experienced a rapid vision loss in both eyes, accompanied by photopsias and myodesopsias, with symptoms appearing respectively 4 and 3 weeks after the surgeries. Multimodal imaging revealed a fulminant outer retinopathy, leading to a total loss of light perception within a few days. Immediate intravenous corticosteroid therapy was administered, permitting to recover a sma

SUBMITTER: Gurtler N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10594781 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature