Abstract
Abstract
Acute traumatic maculopathy included a spectrum of disorders following blunt ocular trauma, such as traumatic pigment epitheliopathy, commotio retina, and choroidal rupture. Our patient was a 47-year-old male who came to the emergency department due to blurred vision in his left eye for the past two weeks following blunt ocular trauma. His best-corrected visual acuity was 10/10 in the unaffected right eye (OD) and 7/10 in the left eye. In fundus examination, we found decreased foveal reflex and gray-white spots in a ring-like pattern at the parafovea and an area of pigmentary change below the superior arcade near the disc. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) demonstrated disruption of the Ellipsoid zone, and Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) showed dark dot signals in choriocapillaris at the same site. As we showed in this article, traumatic choriocapillaropathy, which can be described as spots of flow disruption within choriocapillaris can occur without any injury to the retinal vasculature.
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