Case study: A traumatic case – part 2

At the NEG/Independents Day conference in November 2016, Heidelberg Engineering scanned three real patients from Optometrist Peter Waite’s practice, KG Miles in Birmingham. All the patients were scanned live on the big screen using the Spectralis Imaging Platform and were assessed for both retinal disease and glaucoma. A case study is presented below in the second of a three-part series examining each of the patient cases.

Patient presentation

A 72-year-old female patient of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity presented with a sudden loss of vision in her right eye. She was an existing patient who had elected to attend the practice for an earlier than scheduled eye examination. She reported a quick deterioration in the vision of her right eye over the past couple of days. This is her dominant eye and she is now struggling with visual tasks at distance and near.