Patient reported that visual acuity remained stable but
metamorphopsia was still present.
Metamorphopsia after successful retinal detachment surgery: an optical coherence tomography study.
Two-thirds of the participants did not report any symptoms of
metamorphopsia or scotomas in their central visual fields.
Therefore, these authors would have had difficulty concluding that retinal hemorrhages caused blurring of vision and
metamorphopsia in patients with dengue maculopathy.
There were no sequelae such as
metamorphopsia and persistent central or paracentral scotoma, which were reported in up to 59.5% of 74 affected eyes at 2-year follow-up in a study by Teoh et al.
A 50-year-old Caucasian woman with no previous ocular pathologies was admitted to our department in 2011 presenting with reduced vision and
metamorphopsia in her right eye.
The ocular symptoms included amaurosis fugax (22 cases), photophobia (5 cases), visual loss (24 cases), floaters (20 cases),
metamorphopsia (3 cases), phosphenes (5 cases), diplopia (2 cases), and ocular/periorbital pain (7 cases).
Amsler grid test elucidated
metamorphopsia in 70% of patients, which was more pronounced in just outside non-seeing area, positive scotoma in 78% and micropsia in 4% of patients.
"Decreased vision," "
metamorphopsia," and "central scotoma" as three main symptoms of AMD were described by ten, three, and two respondents, respectively (data not shown).
Complications were persistent vitreous hemorrhage in one (3.33%) patient, failed drainage in one (3.33%) patient and
metamorphopsia in one (3.33%) patient.
Jetrea treats vitreomacular traction and macular hole and was recommended for reimbursement, for treatment of patients showing symptoms of
metamorphopsia, whose impact is considered severe and distressing, and equal to loss of two lines in visual acuity.
However, she complained about objects appearing large and bright in front of one eye and small and dull in front of the other (
metamorphopsia).