Migration of an outer retinal element in a healthy child followed by longitudinal multimodal imaging.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe the migration of an outer retinal element using longitudinal multimodal imaging.

Observations

In the retina of a healthy 7-year-old girl, movement of a hyperreflective element of 15 μm extent was seen using optical coherence tomography (OCT), confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (cSLO), and adaptive optics fundus photography (AO). On the OCT B-scan, the element initially appeared at the level of the outer limiting membrane with an umbra reaching the retinal pigment epithelium from where it gradually diminished and disappeared over 33 days. A corresponding disruption of the photoreceptor pattern on AO diminished over 52 days.

Conclusions and importance

This non-invasive observation of an isolated, cell-sized, migrating element in the human retina

SUBMITTER: Torm MEW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7057146 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature