A case of traumatic submacular hemorrhage treated with tPA and pneumatic displacement
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Motta, Lorenzo
Ripa, Matteo
Theodoraki, Korina
Jackson, Timothy L.
McHugh, Dominic
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2023
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This is a case of a 31-year-old female who presented to the emergency department at a London teaching hospital with a 24-h history of visual loss following an assault. The ophthalmological routine examination showed a submacular hemorrhage (SMH), and a computerized tomography scan demonstrated a displaced orbital floor fracture with inferior rectus entrapment and a medial wall fracture. To induce displacement of the SMH, intravitreal injection of 0.25 μg tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) was combined with 0.3 mL of intravitreal 100% perfluoropropane (C
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Case Reports in Ophthalmology