A 10-year-old boy presented to a local doctor with a sudden decrease of vision and a central scotoma in the right eye two days after being hit in that eye with a wooden stick. A hemorrhage was found in the fundus at that time, so the patient was referred to our hospital, where a hemorrhage was observed in the fovea (). Corrected visual acuity was 20/70 and intraocular pressure was 12 mmHg OD. Optical coherence tomography scanning of the right eye showed submacular hemorrhage (). We performed paracentesis (0.3 mL) under general anesthesia to reduce the intraocular pressure. Next, we injected tPA (12.5 μg in 0.05 mL) into the vitreous cavity and waited 15 minutes for the hemorrhage to dissolve. We then performed a further paracentesis (0.1 mL), followed by injection of pure sulfur hexafluoride (SF6, 0.3 mL) into the vitreous cavity. After surgery, we instructed the patient to maintain a prone position as much as possible for a week. One day later, the hemorrhage had started to move out of the fovea, revealing a choroidal rupture beneath (). We considered this choroidal rupture to be the cause of the hemorrhage.\nThe macula was not damaged () and visual acuity improved to 20/16 by four months and 20/13 by seven months after the above treatment. The submacular hemorrhage had been successfully displaced out of the fovea. In spite of the remaining choroidal rupture, the patient has not complained of any symptoms, including metamorphopsia, after 3 years of follow-up.
A 14-year-old boy presented immediately after injury to the left eye. Examination of the left eye showed a total hyphema which cleared in seven days and vision improved to 6/9. Fundus examination revealed whitish yellow curvilinear lesion and sub-retinal blood []. The right eye was normal.\nSSOCT done seven days post injury showed discontinuity in the RPE/BM complex [] in one area, and there was blood lifting the ellipsoid and ELM layers. The ellipsoid layer was intact over the area but appeared less defined and thicker compared to adjacent ellipsoid layer. The defect in RPE/BM complex was 195 μm. Except for the innermost layers of the choriocapillaries, the outer choriocapillaries and the outer two layers of the choroidal vasculature seemed to be intact. In another area with sub-retinal blood, there was a gap in the RPE/ BM complex measuring about 454 μm []. One edge of the defect was shadowed by the retinal blood vessel over the region.\nOCT done through the same area as in 6 weeks later showed that gap in the RPE/BM complex was bridged with hyper-reflective reparative tissue and this tissue had incorporated the ellipsoid layer, ELM, and part of the outer nuclear layer in it and disrupted them. Some tissue proliferation was seen at the choriocapillary level too [].