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Subretinal pseudocysts: A novel OCT finding in diabetic macular edema
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Subretinal pseudocysts: A novel OCT finding in diabetic macular edema

Riccardo Sacconi, Gerard A Lutty, Robert F Mullins, Enrico Borrelli, Francesco Bandello and Giuseppe Querques
American journal of ophthalmology case reports, Vol.16, p.100567
12/2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajoc.2019.100567
PMCID: PMC6880127
PMID: 31788575
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Abstract

to report the presence of a new structural optical coherence tomography (OCT) finding, namely subretinal pseudocysts, in a patient affected by diabetic retinopathy (DR). A 52-year-old man affected by type 2 diabetes from 10 years was referred to our department complaining of a visual decline in both eyes. Best corrected visual acuity was 20/100 and 20/80 in the right and left eye, respectively. Fundus examination, fluorescein angiography, and structural OCT revealed the presence of a proliferative DR with diabetic macular edema in both eyes. Interestingly, structural OCT showed subretinal pseudocystic spaces inside the subretinal fluid of the macular neuroretinal detachment. Subretinal pseudocysts are a new structural OCT entity. We reported for the first time the evidence that pseudocysts may develop in the subretinal space in a case of diabetic macular edema.
Diabetic Retinopathy Diabetic macular edema Optical coherence tomography Optical coherence tomography angiography Subretinal pseudocysts

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