TY - JOUR
T1 - Purtscher-Like Retinopathy: Optical Coherence Tomography and Visual Field Findings.
AU - Alasil, Tarek
AU - Tokuhara, Keith
AU - Bowes, Larry D
AU - Fan, Joseph
N1 - Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging. 2010 Mar 9:1-4. doi: 10.3928/15428877-20100215-51. [Epub ahead of print]
PY - 2010/3/9
Y1 - 2010/3/9
N2 - A 30-year-old male presented with decreased vision in the right eye after a recent hospitalization for acute pancreatitis. On presentation, his visual acuity was 20/100 right eye (OD) and 20/20 left eye (OS). The funduscopic examination findings were consistent with Purtscher-like retinopathy (PLR). Cirrus HD-OCT (Spectral Domain Technology, Zeiss) of the right eye showed retinal nerve fiber layer swelling and significant subretinal fluid. Humphrey visual field (Central 24-2) revealed generalized defect on the right and inferior nasal step on the left. During the next 6 months, the patient had improvement in visual acuity (20/30 OD and 20/20 OS) and normalization of optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings. However, the visual field (VF) worsened bilaterally suggesting that the injuries induced by micro-infarctions at the level of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) were not reversible. To our knowledge, there have been no reports in the literature that compare high-resolution OCT and VF findings in patients with PLR.
AB - A 30-year-old male presented with decreased vision in the right eye after a recent hospitalization for acute pancreatitis. On presentation, his visual acuity was 20/100 right eye (OD) and 20/20 left eye (OS). The funduscopic examination findings were consistent with Purtscher-like retinopathy (PLR). Cirrus HD-OCT (Spectral Domain Technology, Zeiss) of the right eye showed retinal nerve fiber layer swelling and significant subretinal fluid. Humphrey visual field (Central 24-2) revealed generalized defect on the right and inferior nasal step on the left. During the next 6 months, the patient had improvement in visual acuity (20/30 OD and 20/20 OS) and normalization of optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings. However, the visual field (VF) worsened bilaterally suggesting that the injuries induced by micro-infarctions at the level of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) were not reversible. To our knowledge, there have been no reports in the literature that compare high-resolution OCT and VF findings in patients with PLR.
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20337320/
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U2 - 10.3928/15428877-20100215-51
DO - 10.3928/15428877-20100215-51
M3 - Article
VL - 41
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers Imaging
JF - Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers Imaging
IS - 3
ER -