Management of Suprachoroidal Hemorrhage in a Patient With Boston Type I Keratoprosthesis.

PURPOSE: Suprachoroidal hemorrhage (SCH) is a rare but vision-threatening complication in patients with keratoprosthesis devices (KPro), particularly in the setting of concurrent glaucoma tube shunts. Although there are many approaches to draining an SCH, surgery can be especially challenging in these patients because a crowded anterior chamber, and frequent anterior extension of the SCH.

METHODS

A case report is discussed.

RESULTS

We describe a novel approach to surgical drainage of SCH in a 64-year-old monocular patient with a Type I Boston KPro, an Ahmed valve, and aphakia.

CONCLUSION

Successful repair of appositional SCH in the context of KPro can be safely and effectively achieved by injecting viscoelastic through the backplate holes of the KPro, thereby providing internal tamponade within the vitreous compartment while liquefied hemorrhage is drained by sclerotomy.