Dexamethasone implant confined in Berger’s space

We reported a new complication after dexamethasone implant injection. The patient was treated by dexamethasone implant injection for diabetic macular edema. After injection, we report an implant stucked in Berger’s space behind the crystalline lens capsule in the visual axis. This situation resolved...

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Main Authors: Dubrulle, Pierre, Fajnkuchen, Franck, Qu, Lise, Giocanti-Aurégan, Audrey
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5063824/
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spelling pubmed-50638242016-10-28 Dexamethasone implant confined in Berger’s space Dubrulle, Pierre Fajnkuchen, Franck Qu, Lise Giocanti-Aurégan, Audrey Case Study We reported a new complication after dexamethasone implant injection. The patient was treated by dexamethasone implant injection for diabetic macular edema. After injection, we report an implant stucked in Berger’s space behind the crystalline lens capsule in the visual axis. This situation resolved after cataract surgery and the implant moved to a less inconvenient localization. Springer International Publishing 2016-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5063824/ /pubmed/27795928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3490-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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author Dubrulle, Pierre
Fajnkuchen, Franck
Qu, Lise
Giocanti-Aurégan, Audrey
spellingShingle Dubrulle, Pierre
Fajnkuchen, Franck
Qu, Lise
Giocanti-Aurégan, Audrey
Dexamethasone implant confined in Berger’s space
author_facet Dubrulle, Pierre
Fajnkuchen, Franck
Qu, Lise
Giocanti-Aurégan, Audrey
author_sort Dubrulle, Pierre
title Dexamethasone implant confined in Berger’s space
title_short Dexamethasone implant confined in Berger’s space
title_full Dexamethasone implant confined in Berger’s space
title_fullStr Dexamethasone implant confined in Berger’s space
title_full_unstemmed Dexamethasone implant confined in Berger’s space
title_sort dexamethasone implant confined in berger’s space
description We reported a new complication after dexamethasone implant injection. The patient was treated by dexamethasone implant injection for diabetic macular edema. After injection, we report an implant stucked in Berger’s space behind the crystalline lens capsule in the visual axis. This situation resolved after cataract surgery and the implant moved to a less inconvenient localization.
publisher Springer International Publishing
publishDate 2016
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5063824/
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