Author: Osman Elmahi / Editor: Jessie Lynch / Codes: / Published: 26/02/2025
A 74-year-old male presents to the Emergency Department at 10:00 with a recent history of painless flashes and floaters in his right eye. He experienced intermittent flashing lights which are now subsiding. His past medical history is significant for eye surgery as a teenager for short-sightedness and type II diabetes mellitus with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
On examination, visual acuity in his right eye is 6/12, and in his left eye is 6/6. His visual field is reduced in his right eye and he has experienced a curtain-like shadow across his field of vision.
He is examined using a slit lamp and your findings include an accumulation of vitreous humour in the sub-retinal space.
