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Case report: Macular translocation aids patient with RPE tear

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Macular translocation surgery helped to improve vision the vision of a patient with a retinal pigment epithelial tear secondary to neovascular age-related macular degeneration, according to a published case report.

Faik Gelisken and colleagues at the University of Tuebingen in Germany described the case of a 75-year-old woman with neovascular AMD and retinal pigment epithelial tear. Her preoperative visual acuity was 20/200 in the affected eye.

The patient underwent macular translocation surgery with 360º retinotomy and silicone oil tamponade. Three months after the initial surgery, pars plana vitrectomy, silicone oil removal and muscle surgery were performed.

After 22 months, the woman’s visual acuity had improved to 20/50. No recurrence of the choroidal neovascularization was observed, nor any proliferative vitreoretinopathy.

The study is published in the June issue of Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology.