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Uz. Dr., Samsun Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Göz Hastalıkları, Samsun - Türkiye We present a 66 year old male patient who was admitted to our clinic with blurred vision in the right eye, which commenced 6 months prior. Ophthalmic examination of the patient revealed type 1 macular telangiectasia (MACTEL). As a fi rst line therapy, two occasions of intravitreal afl ibercepts were administered a month apart. For the fi rst and second post-treatment examinations, visual acuity was 0.7 and 1.0 while the thickness of the macula was measured at 295 ?m and 254 ?m, respectively. At the 12th month post-treatment, visual acuity was stabilized and sub-intra retinal fl uid was not detected. This case study suggests that intravitreal afl ibercept injection may be an effective therapy for the treatment of macular edema due to type 1 MACTEL. Keywords : Macular telangiectasia type 1, Aflibercept, Juxtafoveal telengiectasia