| Past Issue | Volume 8, Number 3, June 2006 | | Optical Coherence Tomographic Evaluation of Retained Subretinal Perfluorocarbon |
Radha Shenoy
Department of Ophthalmology, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Perfluorocarbons are tamponading agents used during vitreoretinal surgery. They are toxic to the retina if left inside the eye, and therefore need to be completely removed from the eye. Optical coherence tomography is a non-invasive technique to evaluate the retinal layers that aids the detection of microscopic structural changes in the retinal layers. This report is of the incidental finding of retained subretinal perfluorodecalin in a patient following 3-port pars plana vitrectomy for aphakic retinal detachment in the left eye. The patient had stable visual acuity but showed structural changes in the retina on optical coherence tomogram during follow-up.
Key words: Fluorescein angiography, Fluorocarbons, Pigment epithelium of eye, Tomography, optical coherence
Asian J Ophthalmol 2006;8:118-20.
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