Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Jan 2011)
Delayed inflammation associated with retained perfluorocarbon liquid
- S Pradeep,
- Jay K Chhablani,
- Bhavin Patel,
- Padmaja Rani
Affiliations
- S Pradeep
- Jay K Chhablani
- Bhavin Patel
- Padmaja Rani
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.83623
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 59,
no. 5
pp. 396 – 398
Abstract
A 55-year-old woman, with history of cataract surgery 1 year back, presented with features of ocular inflammation for last 3 months. She had no history of any other intraocular surgery. On examination, anterior segment showed frothy material in the inferior angle with moderate anterior chamber reaction (cells+/flare+) and sulcus intraocular lens with large posterior capsule rent. Fundoscopy showed multiple, small to medium-sized transparent bubbles of perfluorocarbon liquid (PFCL) with membranes in the vitreous cavity. Ultrasonography confirmed the presence of PFCL in the vitreous cavity. Pars plana vitrectomy with anterior chamber wash was done which led to good visual recovery. To conclude, retained PFCL can cause late onset fibrinous inflammation after a quiescent period but surgical intervention may lead to good visual outcome.
Keywords
- Pediatric traumatic cataract
- primary posterior capsulotomy
- posterior capsule opacification
- square-edge intraocular lens
- visual axis opacification
- Multifocal electroretinogram
- principal components′
- analysis
- retinitis pigmentosa
- Behcet′s disease
- HLA-B51
- optical coherence tomography
- macular hole
- Graves′ ophthalmopathy
- thyroid eye disease
- unilateral
- Assam
- corneal ulcer
- fusarium
- mycotic keratitis
- Antifungal sensitivity testing
- amphotericin B
- Aspergillus
- fungal keratitis
- polymerase chain reaction--single-stranded conformational polymorphism.
- Lid coloboma
- limbal dermoid
- nasopalpebral lipoma-coloboma syndrome
- Bilateral
- breast metastasis
- extraocular muscle
- Conventional dacryocystorhinostomy
- trans-canalicular laser-assisted dacryocystorhinostomy
- Eye surgery
- operation theater
- parental presence
- squint surgery
- witnessing a surgery
- Centrocecal visual field defect
- cilioretinal artery occlusion
- fluorescein angiogram
- intranasal cocaine
- Caesarean section
- epidural anesthesia
- Horner′s syndrome
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- hypopyon
- masquerade syndrome
- Low-fluence photodynamic therapy
- choroidal neovascular membrane
- choroidal osteoma
- ranibizumab
- Cataract surgery
- perfluorocarbon liquid
- postoperative inflammation