Abstract

CHAVEZ PARDO, Iris; GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ, María del C; AGUILAR RODRIGUEZ, Maite  and  CARDOSO GUILLEN, Elías. Intravitreal triamcinolone in patients with rubeosis of iridis: a case report. AMC [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.6, pp.1744-1751. ISSN 1025-0255.

Introduction: rubeosis of iridis is the most frequent and precocious of many vascular diseases of the posterior segment complication. Neovascularization management is divided into two aspects: the treatment of the subjacent disease responsible for rubeosis and the treatment of intraocular pressure increase, if present. Objective: to demonstrate the effectiveness of a therapeutic option given by poor results of usual treatments for these complications. Clinical case: a patient with rubeosis of iridis associated with proliferative diabetic retinopathy is presented; the patient was assessed through the best corrected visual acuity examination, biomiscroscopy of the anterior and posterior segment, indirect ophthalmoscopy, tonometry and gonioscopy. Classification of rubeosis of iridis was performed in degrees according to the number of quadrants affected by neovessels, grade I to grade IV, and grade V, when hyphema was presented, besides neovessels in all quadrants. The ophthalmoscopic examination and the posterior segment biomicroscopy were disallowed by total opacity of the lens which prevented details of the fundus. The anterior segment biomicroscopy ranked patient in grade V, presenting cilioconjunctival injection, and corneal edema, hyphema of 3 mm coagulated, fresh blood and neovessel in all quadrants. Conclusions: the patient was treated with intravitreal triamcinolone injection with symptoms and signs improvement.

Keywords : INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; IRIS DISEASES; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; TRIAMCINOLONE; CASE STUDIES.

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