title: Intraocular gas treatment for myopic foveoschisis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a case of symptomatic myopic retinoschisis with foveolar detachment and lamellar macular hole, treated with expansible gas.
  
  
  METHODS
  Interventional case report. A myopic patient presented with a history of decreased vision and metamorphopsia in his right eye. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) revealed an increased macular thickness, thinning and separation of the inner and external retina (retinoschisis or foveoschisis), foveolar detachment, lamellar hole, and foveolar vitreous traction. We treated the patient with a single dose of 0.2 mL of perfluoroethane (C2F6), performed under retrobulbar anesthesia, followed by prone posturing for 15 days.
  
  
  RESULTS
  OCT showed reattachment of the foveolar retina, disappearance of the retinoschisis, and visual acuity improvement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Intraocular expansible gas and prone posturing, without vitrectomy, could be an alternative treatment in selected cases of symptomatic macular foveoschisis with foveolar detachment, in the absence of dense epiretinal membranes.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. pgili@fhalcorcon.es
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gili
authors.forename: Julio
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yanguela
authors.forename: José Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005466:Fluorocarbons / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005584:Fovea Centralis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007267:Injections; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D041441:Retinoschisis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence
chemical_list: D005466:Fluorocarbons; C042852:perflutren