Retina Rounds

Edited by Christopher R. Fortenbach, MD, PhD

A missing link in the chain

The retina specialist may be the first to diagnose amyloidosis, a great masquerader that can be fatal.

More than meets the macula

When it’s not so easy to differentiate pentosan polysulfate toxicity from age-related macular degeneration.

Vanishing Vascular Tumors

The role of belzutifan for patients with von Hippel-Lindau syndrome.

Three strikes of inflammation

A case of Susac syndrome.

A bump in the road of cancer remission

A case of immune checkpoint inhibitor uveitis in a woman on maintenance therapy for kidney cancer.

The patient with the puzzling plaques

The case for considering tuberculosis as an etiology in patients with posterior uveitis who have been to an endemic region.

Sympathetic to the cause

A long-ago ocular trauma caused a sympathetic panuveitis in the fellow eye.

Can we spare the OR?

A case and discussion of macular hole management with medical therapy.

Anticoagulation and a second RVO

Managing retinal vein occlusion in a patient with a history of thrombophilia.

A petal-shaped blind spot

A case of acute macular neuroretinopathy developed in the context of myelofibrosis.

A tale of two hydroxychloroquine patients

Two cases demonstrate the spectrum of retinal findings in HCQ retinal toxicity as well as the role of multifocal electroretinogram in detecting the condition.

A curious case of RAMA

An incidental exam finding upends a 70-year-old woman’s back pain management plan.

‘Twig’ occlusions among the branches

A unique finding of incidental retinal vein occlusion in a healthy patient with newly diagnosed age-related macular degeneration.

RD surgery in a COVID-19-positive patient

Routine repair of a retinal detachment becomes complex during a global pandemic.

A Coats of many colors

A case of unilateral xanthocoria with distinct central subretinal mass.

Melanoma? Or pseudomelanoma?

A patient develops two rare lesions in the same eye.

Maculopathy in the middle

This patient with migraines presents with an unusual cause of acute vision loss.

What Lurks Beneath the RPE

Are polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy and exudative macular degeneration distinct entities?

Retinal Pathology with Glaucoma

Is macular schisis and serous retinal detachment a coincidence or contribution from the optic nerve head?