Open AccessA Rare Case of Purtscher’s Retinopathy Seen in RTA Patient
Author(s) -
Aye Myat Mon,
Yogita Rajbhandari,
Sanyam Bajimaya,
Sudeep Rajbhandari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
global journal of medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-4618
pISSN - 0975-5888
DOI - 10.34257/gjmrfvol21is5pg51
Subject(s) - medicine , retinopathy , ophthalmology , diabetes mellitus , endocrinology
Purtscher's retinopathy was described by German Ophthalmologist Otmar Purtscher in 1910. It is an occlusive microvascular retinopathy caused by trauma such as head injury, thoracic compressive injury or long bone fractures.1Without history of trauma, it can also be due to systemic disease like acute pancreatitis, renal failure, lymphoproliferative disorder, valsalva maneuver, fat embolism syndrome or autoimmune diseases and they present with similar retinal findings and it is called Purtscher like retinopathy.