[Clinical and tomographic aspects of macular microholes].
OBJECTIVE
To describe the clinical aspects and evaluate optical coherence tomography of macular microholes.


METHODS
Seven patients were assessed (8 eyes) with microholes of the macula. All patients underwent complete eye examination, fundus photography, fluorescent angiography and OCT-3 imaging.


RESULTS
Ages ranged from 26 to 69 years. Six patients were female (85.7%) and five of them had microhole in the right eye. The presenting symptom was decrease in visual acuity (71.3%) and central scotoma in (14.3%). Five eyes (71.4%) had no defects shown by fluorescent angiography. A defect in the outer retina was demonstrated in all eyes on optical coherence tomography. The lesions were nonprogressive.


CONCLUSIONS
Macular microholes are small lamellar defects in the outer retina. The condition is nonprogressive, generally unilateral and compatible with good visual acuity. Fundus biomicroscopy associated with an optical coherence tomography are the main elements in the diagnosis and study of this pathology.
Hospital de Olhos Sadalla Amin Ghanem - Joinville (SC) - Brasil. Fernando.novelli@gmail.com
Fernando José de
FJ
Novelli
Otacílio de Oliveira
OO
Maia
Mário Junqueira
MJ
Nóbrega
Theodomiro
T
Garrido Neto
Walter Yukihiko
WY
Takahashi
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008853:Microscopy; D008875:Middle Aged; D012167:Retinal Perforations / Q000473:pathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology