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| Year : 2023 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 439-440 |
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Spontaneous closure of full-thickness macular hole after intravitreal brolucizumab injection for neovascular age-related macular degeneration
Somnath Chakraborty1, Jay Umed Sheth2
1 Retina Institute of Bengal, Pradhan Nagar, Siliguri, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Vitreoretinal Services, Shantilal Shanghvi Eye Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Somnath Chakraborty
Retina Institute of Bengal, Pradhan Nagar, Siliguri - 734 003, West Bengal
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1951_22
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The authors describe the first case report of spontaneous closure of full-thickness macular hole (FTMH) in a 74-year-old female patient with macular neovascularization (MNV) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) after intravitreal injection (IVI) of brolucizumab. A significant improvement in the pigment epithelial detachment (PED) morphology seems to have facilitated the hole closure by relieving the centrifugal traction onto the overlying retina. Another proposed mechanism for hole closure is glial cell proliferation caused by the brolucizumab molecule acting on the underlying MNV. However, more histologic validation is needed to confirm the same.
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