Vitreous amyloidosis is characterized by progressive loss of vision from amyloid accumulation of deposits on the retina and in the vitreous. Time domain optical coherence tomography (TD-OCT) was used in a case of familial transthyretin vitreous amyloidosis Met30 mutation to image the anterior vitreous deposits, which showed high reflectivity of very different from vitreous found in unaffected individuals. TD-OCT may be a useful adjunctive test to diagnose vitreous amyloidosis when masquerade syndromes are suspected. There may be more easeful imaging in TD-OCT of vitreous abnormalities than with spectral domain OCT (SD-OCT). Further study should be performed comparing TD versus SD-OCT in families with vitreous amyloidosis and TD vitreous amyloidosis versus TD in other intermediate uveitis.
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