Bilateral, symmetric and simultaneous rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Predisposition or coincidence? A case report.
The following is a case report of a 65-year-old patient who had previously been diagnosed with primary open-angle glaucoma and who was experiencing a sudden loss of both visual acuity and of superior visual field in both eyes. In the ophthalmological examination, a bilateral, symmetric rhegmatogenous retinal detachment that affected the inferior quadrants of both eyes was detected. The retinal detachment was caused by a retinal horseshoe break located at the equator of 6 h in each eye. The factors that could determine the predisposition for and/or the coincidence of bilateral and symmetric rhegmatogenous retinal detachment will be discussed.
Fundación Instituto Gallego de Oftalmología, Ramón Baltar s/n, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. apices@usc.es
Antonio
A
Piñeiro
Pedro
P
Pacheco
María José
MJ
Copena
Clemente
C
Lastres
Manuel
M
Sánchez-Salorio
D000368:Aged; D003452:Cryosurgery; D006423:Hemianopsia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D012167:Retinal Perforations / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012591:Scleral Buckling; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014794:Visual Fields