Download Full Image

DEGENERATIVE RETINOSCHISIS

Originally posted on @retina.rocks 01/23/2020

This patient has degenerative retinoschisis. A doctor at an outside practice placed prophylactic barrier laser around the outer layer holes to prevent retinal detachment.

There are also extensive smaller inner layer holes that are best seen in the Optos green-channel image.

Learning Points:
Degenerative retinoschisis is virtually never prophylactically treated (see Byer 1986;93;1127-1137). Patients can rarely develop a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment when liquid vitreous accesses the subretinal space thru both an inner and outer layer hole.