Uveal effusion syndrome is characterized by annular ciliochoroidal detachment, shifting non-rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, unremarkable inflammation in the anterior eye segment and normal intraocular pressure. A 36-year-old Caucasian hypermetropic male presented in the eye casualty with a week history of curtain like effect in front of his left eye associated with worsening of vision and fl...

Uveal effusion syndrome usually causes peripheral chorioretinal detachment, but posterior effusion may present as isolated macular edema with serous macular detachment in the setting of hyperopia and a thickened posterior choroid. Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors may be effective to treat this condition.

CASE REPORT A 73 year-old woman with depression treated with escitalopram developed acute secondary angle closure glaucoma related to uveal effusion after duplicating the drug dose 3 days before. She evolved favorably once the antidepressant treatment was suspended and a new treatment with topical hypotensive therapy and oral prednisone was used. DISCUSSION The uveal effusion syndrome associa...

“Uveal effusion” was first described in a nanophthalmic patient by Schepens and Brockhurst in 1963 [1]. Gass and Jallow [2] described a similar syndrome in 1982, idiopathic uveal effusion syndrome, in healthy middle-aged men with normal eyes [2]. These patients usually present with visual loss in either one or both eyes with a superior visual field defect derived from an inferior RD [3]. It is ...

BACKGROUND We report a case of acute uveal effusion during phacoemulsification in an eye with preoperative chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC). CASE PRESENTATION A 55-year-old man with a history of chronic CSC for >18 months presented with bilateral opaque lenses. A preoperative ophthalmic examination showed suspected lenticonus and risky anatomical features, including a thick cili...

OBJECTIVE To confirm the presence of uveal effusion in the eyes of Asian patients with primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) using ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM). METHODS In this observational case series, 70 patients with PACG (28 untreated patients with newly diagnosed PACG and 42 patients who had undergone previous laser iridotomy and were being monitored) and 12 patients with acute primar...