Asymptomatic bilateral simultaneous rhegmatogenous retinal detachments

Patil, B B; Mowatt, L; Ho, S; Scott, R A; Siddiqi, R

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Asymptomatic bilateral simultaneous rhegmatogenous retinal detachments

B B Patil¹,
L Mowatt¹,
S Ho¹,
R A Scott¹ &
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R Siddiqi¹

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Sir,

We read with interest the case report ‘Bilateral rhegmatogenous detachment secondary to retinal dialyses associated with multiple retinal breaks’ by M Singh et al.¹ We agree that simultaneous bilateral rhegmatogenous detachments are uncommon as this accounts for 1.18–2.5% of all retinal detachments.^{2, 3} Retinal dialyses is the cause of the detachment in 10% of cases and is usually unilateral.⁴ Bilateral retinal dialysis occurs in 3.5–7.7% of cases and bilateral inferotemporal dialysis in 1.5–5.6% of the total cases.^{5, 6} We would like to report a similar case of bilateral retinal detachments with retinal dialyses, which was asymptomatic and had intraretinal macrocysts bilaterally.

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Patil, B., Mowatt, L., Ho, S. et al. Asymptomatic bilateral simultaneous rhegmatogenous retinal detachments. Eye 19, 820–821 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.eye.6701659

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