The paper presents an atypical case of solar retinopathy after short-term exposure to reflected focused sunbeams. An ophthalmoscopic peculiarity was the presence of intraretinal hemorrhage. The basis for establishing the diagnosis were spectral optical coherence tomography and fluorescein angiography findings.

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Purpose. To study the frequency and nosological structure of concomitant macular pathology in patients admitted for ophthalmic surgery. Material and methods. A study of the state of the macula was carried out in 337 eyes of 170 patients who underwent a diagnostic examination in the Khabarovsk Branch the S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution in 2020. The patients' age was 58±15.2 years. The selection criterion was sufficient transparency of the optical media for viewing the macular zone. An in-depth examination of the macular zone was carried out using a forehead binocular reflex-free ophthalmoscope (Heine OMEGA500, Germany) and a non-contact lens (VOLK Double Aspheric 20D, USA), as well as optical coherence tomography (Cirrus HD-OCT 5000, «Carl Zeiss», Germany). The proportion of macular pathology among the patients who applied, the frequency and severity of its individual nosological forms were evaluated. Results. Various macular pathologies occurred in 28.2% of cases. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) (47.9%) and epiretinal fibrosis (27.1%) accounted for a significant share in the structure of macular pathology. The frequency and structure of macular pathology in patients with age-related cataracts was analyzed. The incidence of macular pathology in them was 45.1%, of which AMD was detected in 65.2% of cases, epiretinal fibrosis – 7.8%. Conclusion. Among the group of patients selected by the method of continuous sampling with various ophthalmic surgical pathologies, 28.2% had various pathologies of the macular zone. The most common macular pathology occurred in the age group from 45 to 59 years old, accounting for 56.2% of cases. In the nosological structure of macular pathology, the share of AMD and epiretinal fibrosis prevailed. Key words: macular pathology, age-related macular degeneration, epiretinal fibrosis.