Preorbital Hemorrhage with Subretinal Hemorrhage Following Air Bag Trauma (Mosaic MRI, Colour Image, OCT)
Preorbital Hemorrhage with Subretinal Hemorrhage Following Air Bag Trauma (Mosaic MRI, Colour Image, OCT)
To present a case of ocular posterior segment injury associated with airbag inflation. The airbag-associated posterior segment ocular trauma was induced by impact with fully deployed airbag.
Female subject, 55 years of age, BCVA 0.1, IOP 18 mmHg.
Ocular findings: Subconjunctival hemorrhage and lid ecchymosis were present.
Fundus examination showed vitreous hemorrhage, traumatic maculopathy, and blood in the subretinal space.
OCT (Spectralis, HE, Heidelberg) depicted subretinal hemorrhage.
MRI showed a preorbital hemorrhage.
Tourtas, Theofilus, Dr.med., Augenklinik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany; Michelson, Georg, Prof. Dr. med., Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für augenheilkundliche Präventivmedizin, Augenklinik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany