We went to my mom’s ophthalmologist last Friday to check her eye’s condition. She wasn’t supposed to meet her ophthalmologist until next month but lately she’s been complaining that her vision became blurry again especially when she tried to read so we decided to make an appointment immediately.
The doctor said there was a swelling around my mom’s eye as a sign of Cystoid Macular Edema (CME) so he sent her to CDC room to get an OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) test to make sure. However, somehow they couldn’t perform the OCT test so the doctor used ultrasound instead. Here’s the result.
His doctor then proposed an Intravitreal triamcinolone (IVT) injection as treatment to reduce the edema. He explained several possible causes of CME and the side effects of IVT. He also recommended some further tests to find out the exact cause of my mom’s macular edema such as hematology and TORCH test, thorax x-ray and dental checkup (in case she has tooth cavity).
The injection is scheduled on Wednesday at 2PM but we have to be there by 1PM as we will have further discussion about the procedure. Hopefully the IVT procedure can help to improve her vision.
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