title: RAPID MACULAR HOLE FORMATION, SPONTANEOUS CLOSURE, AND REOPENING AFTER PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY FOR MACULA-SPARING RETINAL DETACHMENT.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a single case of macular hole (MH) opening, spontaneous closure, and reopening in the 3-month period after pars plana vitrectomy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 59-year-old man with a macula-sparing RRD underwent uncomplicated pars plana vitrectomy with gas tamponade. The patient developed a FTMH 2 months postoperatively. The hole was noted to spontaneously close 3 months postoperatively, but then reopened 4 months postoperatively and required repeat pars plana vitrectomy and inner limiting membrane peel for definitive closure. The rapidity with which the MH developed after pars plana vitrectomy for macula-sparing RRD and its dynamic behavior have not been previously reported.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Full-thickness macular holes may rarely develop rapidly, spontaneous close, and reopen after pars plana vitrectomy for RRD, even in macula-sparing cases.
authors.affiliation: *Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; and †Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: Jayanth
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sridhar
authors.forename: Justin H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Townsend
authors.forename: Aleksandra V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Rachitskaya
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012008:Recurrence; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000601:surgery*; D012167:Retinal Perforations / Q000209:etiology*; D014821:Vitrectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*