Symptomatic Foveal Impingement following Posterior Vitreous Detachment Formation
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https://doi.org/10.62856/djcro.v5.29Abstract
A-57-year old visually asymptomatic healthy woman was examined by us first in 2016. On optical coherence tomographic (OCT) examination left foveal contour appeared as normal at that time (Figure A). In 2020, there was the evidence of vitreomacular adhesion despite the normal foveal contour in the left eye (Figure B). However, we noticed the left foveal inpingement related to detached posterior vitreous on OCT when she was reexamined with the complaint of left metamorphosia in 2024 (Figure C).
Posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) is the vitreous gel liquefaction,and extracellular matrix changes at the vitreoretinal interface characterized with the detachment of posterior vitreous cortex from the internal limiting membrane due to ongoing aging process.1 Gel liquefaction that exceeds the degree of vitreoretinal dehiscence may end up with anomalous PVD. We propose the term of ‘foveal inpingement’ to describe the subtle foveal contour change described above and believe that this term can gain recognition among the retinal physicians.
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