Images in Clinical Medicine. Central Retinal-Vein Occlusion

N Engl J Med. 2015 Nov 12;373(20):e23. doi: 10.1056/NEJMicm1501878.

Abstract

A 43-year-old man presented with sudden painless loss of vision in his left eye. Funduscopic examination revealed hyperemia and swelling of the optic nerve, macular edema, diffuse intraretinal hemorrhages, and dilated and tortuous retinal veins.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Blindness / etiology*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Glaucoma, Open-Angle / complications
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / complications
  • Macular Edema / complications
  • Male
  • Retinal Artery Occlusion / complications
  • Retinal Artery Occlusion / pathology*