Recurrent macular detachment and retinoschisis associated with intrachoroidal cavitation in a normal eye.
OBJECTIVE
To describe a patient with intrachoroidal cavitation in the normal eye that caused self-limiting recurrent macular detachment and retinoschisis.


METHODS
An 80-year-old female patient with intrachoroidal cavitation in the normal eye presented with macular detachment and retinoschisis after cataract surgery. These were treated with intravitreal bevacizumab and then absorbed within 9 months. One year after cataract surgery, the patient presented with macular detachment and retinoschisis in the same eye again. These were absorbed within 4 months without treatment.


CONCLUSIONS
This case suggests that similar cases of cystoid macular edema after cataract surgery can occur, and that intrachoroidal cavitation is observed not only in eyes with pathologic myopia but also in normal eyes with peripapillary atrophy; intrachoroidal cavitation can cause macular detachment and retinoschisis.
Department of Ophthalmology and National Hospital Organization, and Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, and Japan.
Masayuki
M
Akimoto
Tadamichi
T
Akagi
Kazushiro
K
Okazaki
Etsuo
E
Chihara