Recurrent Choroidal Detachment

Recurrent choroidal detachment.

CHOROIDAL detachment following intra-ocular operation is a complication often encountered, but associated with other conditions or alone it is rare. It has been reported after orbital cellulitis, intra-ocular foreign body, tenonitis, scleritis, certain systemic diseases, and has also apparently occurred spontaneously. This report concerns a man who, at the age of 63, developed a choroidal detac...

Recurrent Annular Peripheral Choroidal Detachment after Trabeculectomy

We report a challenging case of recurrent flat anterior chamber without hypotony after trabeculectomy in a 54-year-old Black male with a remote history of steroid-treated polymyositis, cataract surgery, and uncontrolled open angle glaucoma. The patient presented with a flat chamber on postoperative day 11, but had a normal fundus exam and intraocular pressure (IOP). Flat chamber persisted despi...

[Late and recurrent serous choroidal detachment after trabeculectomy: case report].

A case of an 85 year-old white man with bilateral senile cataract and advanced primary open-angle glaucoma uncontrolled with maximal medical therapy, asteroid hyalosis in OD and age-related macular degeneration in OS, submitted to a phacotrabeculectomy OU with mitomycin-C is reported. Because the surgery failed in both eyes, even after laser suture lysis, 5-FU injections and needling, it was ne...

Persistent choroidal detachment.

Choroidal detachment after filtering surgery.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to report the treatment and outcome of eight cases of choroidal detachment, which occurred several days to many years after trabeculectomy. METHODS This is a retrospective study of eight cases of choroidal detachment after trabeculectomy with or without cataract extraction reviewed at CGMH, Keelung, from 2002 to 2004. One eye with idiopathic scleromalac...