Surgical Removal of Retained Subfoveal Perfluorocarbon Liquid through a Therapeutic Macular Hole with Intravitreal PFCL Injection and Gas Tamponade
A 66-year-old woman with recurred rhegmatogenous retinal detachment of the right eye was referred to our hospital. The patient had a one-month history of scleral buckling, cataract operation, and pars plana vitrectomy with intravitreal gas injection in the right eye. Visual acuity of the right eye was limited to 20 / 200. A fundus examination revealed inferotemporal retinal detachment with multiple peripheral retinal tears at 10 o'clock complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy. She underwent two additional vitrectomies using PFCL, and reattachment of retina was achieved. Three months after the last surgery, however, a subfoveal PFCL bubble was found by funduscopy and OCT (), and visual acuity of the right eye was limited to 20 / 1,000.