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Year : 2020 | Volume
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Multimodal imaging of an idiopathic florid vascularised epiretinal membrane: Course, treatment, and outcome
B Poornachandra1, Edwin James1, Aditya Aseem1, Chaitra Jayadev1, Srinivasan Sanjay1, KT Ashwini2, Santosh G K Gadde1, Naresh K Yadav1
1 Department of Vitreo- Retina, Narayana Nethralaya Eye Institute, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 2 Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. B Poornachandra Narayana Nethralaya Eye Institute, 121/C, Chord Road, Rajajinagar, 1st ‘R’ Block, Bangalore, Karnataka - 560 010 India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2363_19
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Idiopathic vascular epiretinal membrane is an extremely rare entity and the pathogenesis and clinical course is not clearly understood. A 53-year-old hypertensive female patient presented with complaints of altered vision in the right eye. On examination, her vision was 20/30 and fundoscopy showed a vascularized epiretinal membrane (ERM), which was confirmed on spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. No primary cause was found after investigations. The symptoms and ERM showed slow progression over the next three years with a visual acuity of 20/60. She underwent surgery for removal of the ERM, which was subjected to histopathological evaluation. This is a unique case of a florid proliferative vascularisation of an ERM in the absence of any identifiable cause, which had a good visual outcome following surgery.
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