A 57-year-old male patient with a history of type II diabetes mellitus, hypertension and ischaemic heart disease was studied in our clinic for proliferative diabetic retinopathy. His visual acuity was 20/50 in the right eye (OD) and 20/25 in the left eye (OI). He had previously been treated with argon laser panretino-photocoagulation in both eyes, as well as pars plana vitrectomy and stripping of the internal limiting membrane with intravitreal triamcinolone injection in OD due to vitreous haemorrhage and chronic diffuse macular oedema. There were no residual neovascular membranes on fundus examination, but microaneurysms and haemorrhages in the posterior pole of both eyes. In the left eye, there were some AMIR in the temporal macular area.
Fluorescein angiography was performed using 5 ml of 10% sodium fluorescein. Equatorial ischaemic areas and diffuse macular oedema and AMIR were observed in the left eye, but no neovascular membranes were observed. In this eye and after 8 minutes of angiogram, active bleeding from the AMIR occurred. Eye movement left different traces of blood in the vitreous cavity. The bleeding was brief and self-limited, with no symptoms initially. Shortly afterwards the patient began to notice myodesopsias. Two weeks later, the vitreous haemorrhage resolved without consequences.

