Very late onset Irvine-Gass syndrome

Author: Rocio Falcon Roca (Spain)

Co-authors: Hugo E. Tapia Quijada

Purpose

Cystoid macular edema (CME) secondary to cataract surgery or Irvine Gass Syndrome (IGS) is often asymptomatic. When it is associated with visual loss, it generally manifests between 4 and 10 weeks after surgery. Although it occurs in a relatively close temporal relationship to surgery, it is quite rare that it can happen years after surgery. We present the case of a woman who presented Irvine Gass syndrome 6 years after cataract surgery

Setting/Venue

Section Retina. Hospital Universitario de Canarias. Tenerife-Spain

Methods

Case Report

Results

A 67-year-old woman with no significant systemic history, presented Irvine Gass syndrome 6 years after cataract surgery. The diagnosis of IGS is made, ruling out other possible causes of CME in a patient who undergoes cataracts surgery complicated with posterior capsule rupture that occurs in a period of 6 years after surgery. Fluorescein angiography and OCT-SD were fundamental tools for diagnosis.

Conlusions

Pseudophakic cystoid macular edema can appear years after cataract surgery, with no other obvious cause, except for the surgical procedure itself.

Financial Disclosure

NO FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

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