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Case Reports: Rare disease
Multimodal imaging of congenital retinal macrovessel with secondary foveal hypoplasia
  1. Piyush Kohli1,2,
  2. Chitaranjan Mishra1,
  3. Girish Baliga1 and
  4. Renu P Rajan1
  1. 1Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India
  2. 2Department of Vitreoretinal Services, CL Gupta Eye Institute, Moradabad, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Piyush Kohli; kohli119{at}gmail.com

Abstract

Congenital retinal macrovessel (CRM) is defined as a large aberrant blood vessel that traverses through the central macula. It can have large tributaries extending on both sides of the horizontal raphe. The condition is typically asymptomatic. However, visual loss may be reported in case of associated branch retinal artery occlusion, cavernous haemangioma, retinal artery macroaneurysm, retinal deep capillary ischaemia, retinal detachment and vitreous haemorrhage. However, association of CRM and foveal hypoplasia has rarely been reported.

We report multimodal imaging in a patient who was presented with visual loss due to foveal hypoplasia secondary to CRM.

  • Macula
  • Retina

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-249563

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    • Contributors PK and CM contributed to the conception and design, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data, drafting of the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content. GB and RPR contributed to the acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data, drafting of the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Case reports provide a valuable learning resource for the scientific community and can indicate areas of interest for future research. They should not be used in isolation to guide treatment choices or public health policy.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.