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Acute traumatic maculopathy

Acute traumatic maculopathy

 

Omar Lezrek1,&, Mounir Lezrek1

 

1Mohammed V University Souissi, Faculty of Medicine, Department A of Ophthalmology, Rabat, Morocco

 

 

&Corresponding author
Omar Lezrek, Mohammed V University Souissi, Faculty of Medicine, Department A of Ophthalmology, Rabat, Morocco

 

 

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A 14-year old child presented to the emergency department (ED), complaining of blurry vision one hour after he was victim of a blunt trauma of his right eye. Initially, visual acuity was Counting Fingers at 2m and 20/20 in the left eye, Slit lamp examination was normal; Funduscopy of the right eye revealed gray-white discoloration of macula and lower retina in posterior pole (A); Optical coherence tomography showed an increase in reflectivity of the inner and outer segment junction (B); 1 week later, the visual acuity improved to 20/25 in the right eye without any treatment.

Figure 1: A) Fundus photography; B) difference between macular OCT in contused eye and the healthy eye