title: Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment after rupture of retinal arterial macroaneurysm.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report two cases of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment following rupture of retinal arterial macroaneurysm.
  
  
  METHODS
  Observational case report.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of clinical records of 75 consecutive eyes (73 patients) with macroaneurysm.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ruptured macroaneurysm was present in 68 of the 75 eyes, and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment developed spontaneously in 2 (2.9%) of the 68 eyes. In the 2 eyes with retinal detachment, there were no predisposing lesions to retinal detachment and the detachment occurred either 2 weeks or 1 month after the rupture of a macroaneurysm. Retinal detachment and posterior vitreous detachment developed simultaneously after bleeding from the macroaneurysm spread into the vitreous in 1 eye.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We report the occurrence of retinal detachment after macroaneurysmal rupture. Detailed fun-dus examination is required to detect retinal detachment in the follow-up of patients with ruptured macroaneurysm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: Asako
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tashimo
authors.forename: Yoshinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mitamura
authors.forename: Nobuko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sekine
authors.forename: Muneyasu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohtsuka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012161:Retinal Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D012591:Scleral Buckling; D014821:Vitrectomy