Acute traumatic maculopathy
Omar Lezrek, Mounir Lezrek
Corresponding author: Omar Lezrek, Mohammed V University Souissi, Faculty of Medicine, Department A of Ophthalmology, Rabat, Morocco 
Received: 14 May 2014 - Accepted: 06 Jun 2014 - Published: 11 Jun 2014
Domain: Clinical medicine
Keywords: Maculopathy, trauma, blurry vision, Funduscopy, optical coherence tomography
©Omar Lezrek et al. Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite this article: Omar Lezrek et al. Acute traumatic maculopathy. Pan African Medical Journal. 2014;18:133. [doi: 10.11604/pamj.2014.18.133.4595]
Available online at: https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com//content/article/18/133/full
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Acute traumatic maculopathy
Acute traumatic maculopathy
Omar Lezrek1,&, Mounir Lezrek1
1Mohammed V University Souissi, Faculty of Medicine, Department A of Ophthalmology, Rabat, Morocco
&Corresponding author
Omar Lezrek, Mohammed V University Souissi, Faculty of Medicine, Department A of Ophthalmology, Rabat, Morocco
A 14-year old child presented to the emergency department (ED), complaining of blurry vision one hour after he was victim of a blunt trauma of his right eye. Initially, visual acuity was Counting Fingers at 2m and 20/20 in the left eye, Slit lamp examination was normal; Funduscopy of the right eye revealed gray-white discoloration of macula and lower retina in posterior pole (A); Optical coherence tomography showed an increase in reflectivity of the inner and outer segment junction (B); 1 week later, the visual acuity improved to 20/25 in the right eye without any treatment.
Figure 1: A) Fundus photography; B) difference between macular OCT in contused eye and the healthy eye
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