Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

CASE REPORT
Year
: 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 10  |  Page : 2302--2304

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

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.


How to cite this article:
Poornachandra B, James E, Aseem A, Jayadev C, Sanjay S, Ashwini K T, Gadde SG, Yadav NK. Multimodal imaging of an idiopathic florid vascularised epiretinal membrane: Course, treatment, and outcome.Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:2302-2304


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Poornachandra B, James E, Aseem A, Jayadev C, Sanjay S, Ashwini K T, Gadde SG, Yadav NK. Multimodal imaging of an idiopathic florid vascularised epiretinal membrane: Course, treatment, and outcome. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 29 ];68:2302-2304
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