Therapeutic vitrectomy for vitreal recurrence of intraocular lymphoma resistant to intravitreal methotrexate post systemic chemotherapy

Abstract

A 49-year-old female with biopsy proven primary vitreoretinal lymphoma and primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) presented with asymmetric involvement of both eyes. Right eye had primarily retinal and optic nerve involvement with no light perception while the left eye had purely vitreal form of the disease with visual acuity of 6/18. She was treated with recommended DeAngelis protocol for PCNSL and achieved complete remission of CNS disease and in the right eye and responded only partially to the systemic chemotherapy in the left eye. She received multiple intravitreal methotrexate injections (400 ∝ g/0.1 ml) for persisting disease in the left eye. However, she developed resistance to the same after repeated injections for which therapeutic vitrectomy was performed. She achieved final visual acuity of 6/12 in the right eye and 6/18 in the left eye and did not relapse until last follow-up of 2 years.