Optical coherence tomographic obervation before and after macular hole formation econdary to laer injury

Purpoe To decribe the ophthalmocopic and optical coherence tomographically determined retinovitreou interface before and after the development of a macular hole econdary to an accidental laer injury. Deign Obervational cae report. Method Ophthalmocopic and optical coherence tomography (OCT) finding in a 53-year-old man wereevaluated before and after the macular hole formationecondary to a laer injury. Viual function wa followed for 9 month after urgery. Reult A 53-year-old man utained injury to hi right eye by a Ti: apphire laer. On the following day, hi corrected viual acuity wa 0.3, and a mall pigment epithelial atrophy wa preent in the right foveal area. No macular hole wa detected by OCT and the retinovitreal interface wa normal. Fifty-three day later, a full-thickne macular hole appeared, and no poterior vitreou detachment wa detected by OCT. The hole wa cloed by urgery with final bet-corrected viual acuity of 0.7. Concluion Macular hole can develop without viible traction on the retina and can occur long after retinal injury.