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This 20YO male presented with a four-year history of bilateral night blindness and progressive vision loss. Vision was no light perception OU. Color photography of his left eye shows a variably pigmented colobomatous lesion occupying virtually the entire macula. Macular OCT scanning shows loss of the outer retinal bands, a thinned to non-visualized choroid, and… Read More

A holiday gift for our awesome viewers! Here’s a gorgeous Optos color RGB image of asteroid hyalosis in a healthy 51YO man. Vision was 20/25. And he was completely visually asymptomatic. As we exit 2023, enter 2024, and celebrate Retina Rock’s 4th birthday, we are so grateful that people across the globe enjoy our images… Read More

The 53YO male has a known history of ocular albinism, reporting poor visual acuity and horizontal nystagmus since childhood. Vision was 20/200 bilaterally. Color imaging of the left eye shows a diffusely hypo-pigmented fundus with foveal hypoplasia. OCT imaging shows a flat foveal contour (fovea plana). Similar findings were noted in the right eye (not… Read More

This 61YO male presented with a several-week history of severe vision loss in his left eye. Vision was hand motion. Optos color RG imaging shows a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) with corrugated outer retinal folds. A large horseshoe retinal tear is seen superotemporally, with numerous smaller breaks noted. The outer retinal folds are best seen… Read More

This 23YO female was noted by her optometrist in 2019 to have vision loss from a retinal lesion. At presentation, vision was 20/400 in her left eye and 20/20 in the right eye. She was referred to an outside retina specialist, who gave a single anti-VEGF injection and then referred her to Columbia University. Our… Read More

This 51YO female was referred for asymptomatic retinal hemorrhages in each eye. She had a history of pulmonary hypertension. Vision was 20/20 bilaterally. Optos color RG imaging shows scattered retinal hemorrhages in all quadrants, most of which are deep with white centers. A complete blood count revealed a hemoglobin of 18.0 g/dl, and she was… Read More

This healthy 25YO female’s primary care doctor noticed an unusual finding in her right eye and referred her to us for an examination. She said that her right pupil had looked different. Optos color RG imaging shows a large inferior choroidal coloboma extending from the inferior disc margin into the retinal periphery. An inferior iris… Read More

This 76YO female presented with no visual symptoms, 20/40 vision, and an abnormal OCT in her left eye. What caused this subtle OCT finding? She was previously being followed for asymptomatic focal vitreomacular traction (VMT) in this eye. On 12/12/22, Triton color imaging showed a subtle foveal cyst with focal VMT on swept-source OCT. We… Read More

This 18YO male, originally from the Dominican Republic, was first seen by an ophthalmologist at 14YO due to strabismus. At that time, he was found to have a significant morning glory anomaly. Two years later, at age 16, he developed a right-sided facial palsy and, on work-up, was found to have a right optic nerve… Read More

This 66YO female presented for her postoperative exam following an uneventful pars plana vitrectomy one day earlier for a diabetic traction retinal detachment. Optos RG imaging shows 360 degrees of peripheral choroidal detachments with a 30% air bubble. Fresh panretinal photocoagulation burns are noted, and the retina is attached. All wounds were secure, and the… Read More