Roller Coasters and Retinal Detachment: Case Series and Review of Acceleration-Deceleration Retinal Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Anecdotal reports and limited reports suggest a possible link between activities involving rapid acceleration and retinal detachment. We present two novel such cases and review existing literature to investigate the plausibility of this association and delineate in what populations such an association may be more likely.

Case presentation

We report 2 cases of retinal detachment following roller coaster riding. The first, a 24-year-old woman with a family history of retinal detachment, presented with floaters after consecutive rides and was found to have an inferior temporal macula-sparing retinal detachment with associated retinal breaks. The second case, a 25-year-old female with a history of high myopia, presented with visual field defect and was found to have

SUBMITTER: Pickel L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11521468 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature