• Users Online: 69651
  • Home
  • Print this page
  • Email this page
BRIEF COMMUNICATION
Year : 2010  |  Volume : 58  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 234-236

Spontaneous bilateral peripapillary, subhyaloid and vitreous hemorrhage with severe anemia secondary to idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura


Smt. Kanuri Shanthamma Center for Retina Vitreous Diseases, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-500 034, India

Correspondence Address:
Kapil Bhatia
Room no. 401, Smt. Kanuri Shanthamma Center for Retina Vitreous Diseases, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-500034
India
Login to access the Email id

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.62651

Rights and Permissions

A 42-year-old female presented to us with a complaint of sudden painless loss of vision in both eyes of three days duration. Visual acuity was 20/100 for distance in both eyes. Fundus examination showed bilateral peripapillary hemorrhages, with subhyaloid and vitreous hemorrhage in both eyes. Hematological investigations revealed hemoglobin (HB 7 gm %) and severe thrombocytopenia (12,000/ ul). She was referred to a hematologist where a diagnosis of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was made. She was treated for systemic condition with regular ophthalmic follow-up. Over the next nine months, retinal hemorrhages completely resolved and the patient regained her visual acuity. The purpose of this case report is to highlight the clinical presentation of severe anemia, which is different from previous reports and the role of an ophthalmologist in first detecting the Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), which led to successful recovery.


[FULL TEXT] [PDF]*
Print this article     Email this article
 Next article
 Previous article
 Table of Contents

 Similar in PUBMED
   Search Pubmed for
   Search in Google Scholar for
 Related articles
 Citation Manager
 Access Statistics
 Reader Comments
 Email Alert *
 Add to My List *
 * Requires registration (Free)
 

 Article Access Statistics
    Viewed4458    
    Printed113    
    Emailed2    
    PDF Downloaded294    
    Comments [Add]    
    Cited by others 13    

Recommend this journal