Coats disease in a 3-week-old boy.

Coats disease is a rare, idiopathic retinal vasculopathy that predominantly affects males in the first decade of life. We report the case of a 3-week-old boy who presented with atypical rapidly progressing disease suggestive of Coats exudative vasculopathy. The eye developed retinal fibrosis and phthisis bulbi within 4 weeks.

Long-term visual acuity and the duration of macular detachment: findings from a prospective population-based study.

Aim: To report the long-term visual outcome of a multicentre prospectively recruited cohort of macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRD) METHODS: The Scottish retinal detachment study was a prospectively recruited study that recruited all incident cases of primary RRD in Scotland over a 2-year period (2007-2009). All patients with a macula-off RRD from four participating sites were invited for clinical examination at 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year after the initial surgery. Using a joinpoint model we estimated the effect of duration of macular detachment on final visual outcome.