Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

OPHTHALMIC IMAGE
Year
: 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 10  |  Page : 2262-

Focal choroidal excavation with macular hole in a case of advanced retinitis pigmentosa


Raj Shri Hirawat1, CK Nagesha2, Chanchal Poddar3,  
1 Department of Vitreo-Retina, Gomabai Netralaya, Neemach, Madhya Pradesh, India
2 Department of Vitreo-Retina, B. W. Lions Superspeciality Eye Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
3 Department of Ophthalmology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India

Correspondence Address:
Dr. C K Nagesha
Department of Vitreo-Retina, B. W. Lions Superspeciality Eye Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka
India




How to cite this article:
Hirawat RS, Nagesha C K, Poddar C. Focal choroidal excavation with macular hole in a case of advanced retinitis pigmentosa.Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:2262-2262


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Hirawat RS, Nagesha C K, Poddar C. Focal choroidal excavation with macular hole in a case of advanced retinitis pigmentosa. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 29 ];68:2262-2262
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A 32-old lady presented with light perception vision in both eyes. Fundus examination of both eyes showed arteriolar attenuation and bone specule pigmentation throughout suggestive of retinitis pigmentosa. Left eye showed an yellowish-white punched-out lesion at macula [[Figure 1]a, asterisk] with an overlying macular hole. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) scan through the macula revealed focal choroidal excavation (FCE) of nonconforming type with full thickness macular hole [Figure 1]b.{Figure 1}

FCE is described in association with pachychoroid, North Carolina dystrophy and rubella.[1],[2],[3] Chronic intraocular inflammation has been observed in RP.[4] This inflammation could have caused disruption of the choroidal stroma leading onto atrophy and excavation. This entity should be differentiated from intrachoroidal cavitations seen in myopia in which there is posterior bowing of the sclera with retino-choroidal coning,[5] and macular coloboma where the defect is layered by undifferentiated retinal tissue.

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