Acute traumatic maculopathy

Abstract

A 14-year old child presented to the emergency department (ED), complaining of blurry vision 1 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.

Keywords

• maculopathy
• trauma
• blurry vision
• funduscopy
• optical coherence tomography