Photic maculopathy after pterygium excision

Bilateral photic maculopathy following pterygium excision: Spectral domain optical coherence tomography findings

“…Unilateral photic maculopathy following pterygium excision has previously been reported in a 27-year-old woman with retrobulbar anaesthesia[2]. Herein, we present SD-OCT findings of bilateral photic maculopathy following pterygium excision; the operations were done under local anaesthesia.…”

“…[1] Operating microscope-induced retinopathy has been reported following extracapsular cataract extraction, phacoemulsification, penetrating keratoplasty, vitrectomy[1] and pterygium excision. [2]…”

Phototoxic maculopathy associated with arc welding: clinical findings and associated functional vision impairment

“…Light emitted by an arc welder is a documented cause of phototoxic maculopathy 1,2 which can also occur on overexposure to sunlight, halogen filaments and operation microscopes 1,3,4 . An arc welder emits at both ultraviolet and infrared visible light and the intense near ultraviolet emissions lead to maculopathy when prolonged light exposure causes damage to the photoreceptors, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and other layers.…”

Prevention of pterygium recurrence by postoperative single-dose β-irradiation: a prospective randomized clinical double-blind trial

“…The total doses, fractionation schedules, and overall treatment times were not described in detail, making it impossible to calculate the BEDs for late responding tissues (␣/␤ ratios of about 3 Gy) to compare them with the ones that we used or to estimate the risk of inducing complications. However, reports of late necrotizing scleritis and photic maculopathy years after surgery only have also been reported (38,39), making it unlikely that RT is the only agent responsible for inducing the few severe treatment complications (40). In our series to date, we have mainly observed irritation and photophobia in both treatment groups and a few cases of postoperative granuloma in the surgery only group, but no severe complications.…”