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- Title
Spontaneous ophthalmic artery occlusion in children due to Hyperhomocysteinemia.
- Authors
Sachdeva, Virender; Garg, Ravi; Pathengay, Avinash; Kekunnaya, Ramesh
- Abstract
Ophthalmic artery occlusion usually presents as a sudden onset profound decrease in vision in the middle-aged and elderly patients following periocular procedures (retrobulbar injection/glabellar fat injection), embolism from the heart or after prolonged systemic surgery. In this report, we describe three children with spontaneous ophthalmic artery occlusion who presented with unilateral loss of vision and diagnosed elsewhere as optic atrophy whose detailed history and examination were suggestive of ophthalmic artery occlusion. Detailed systemic and laboratory evaluation revealed hyperhomocysteinemia as the only potential risk factor. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of the association of hyperhomocysteinemia and spontaneous ophthalmic artery occlusion.
- Subjects
OPHTHALMIC artery; ARTERIAL occlusions; ARTERIAL disease treatment; TREATMENT of hyperhomocysteinemia; AMINO acid metabolism disorders; PHYSIOLOGY; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Oman Journal of Ophthalmology, 2015, Vol 8, Issue 2, p122
- ISSN
0974-620X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/0974-620X.159270