Rapid choroidal neovascularization after non-flap internal limiting membrane peeling for macular hole in a patient with AMD: a case report and literature review
Buğra Karasu, Büşra Yılmaz Tuğan, Enes Kesim, Serkan Özen · 2026
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Buğra Karasu and co-authors report a complication after eye surgery: a seventy-year-old woman with age-related macular degeneration had a full-thickness macular hole repaired. The operation removed the vitreous gel and peeled a thin membrane from the retina, using the standard non-flap technique, with gas left in the eye. Nothing went wrong during surgery.
Six weeks later her sight dropped suddenly. New abnormal blood vessels had grown rapidly at the edge of the peeled area — a rare complication called choroidal neovascularization. The team planned injections of a drug that blocks vessel growth. Reviewing earlier reports, they note most cases involve eyes with existing degeneration or drusen. They suggest the mechanical stress of peeling may help trigger the growth in such eyes, while stressing that one case cannot prove cause. Surgeons, they advise, should watch closely in the first weeks after such operations.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Buğra Karasu, Büşra Yılmaz Tuğan, Enes Kesim, Serkan Özen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |