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Isolated retinal cotton wool spot after coronary angiography

Kopsachilis, Nikolaos.


 

Isolated retinal cotton wool spot after coronary angiography

Kopsachilis, Nikolaos.

Visual symptoms after coronary angiography are rarely encountered and mostly related to contrast induced transient cortical blindness or retinal artery occlusions. We report an intriguing case of a 50‑year‑old woman, who presented with vision deterioration in her right eye 12 h after coronary angiography for cardiac palpitation. Fundoscopy and optical coherence tomography scan revealed an isolated parafoveal cotton wool spot in her right eye that has totally resolved 6 weeks after initial presentation. This is the first case report of this rare post coronary angiography complication.

Visual symptoms after coronary angiography are rarely encountered and mostly related to contrast induced transient cortical blindness or retinal artery occlusions. We report an intriguing case of a 50‑year‑old woman, who presented with vision deterioration in her right eye 12 h after coronary a...

مادة فرعية

المؤلف : Kopsachilis, Nikolaos.

مؤلف مشارك : Brar, Manpreet
Marinescu, Anca I. C
Sivaprasad, Sobha

بيانات النشر : Oman Journal of Ophthalmology، 2013مـ.

التصنيف الموضوعي : العلوم التطبيقية|العلوم الطبية .

المواضيع : Coronary Angiography .

Ophthalmology .

رقم الطبعة : 1

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