Unilateral central retinal artery occlusion as the sole presenting sign of Susac syndrome in a young man: case report

Unilateral central retinal artery occlusion as the sole presenting sign of Susac syndrome in a young man: case report.

We report the case of a 24-year-old man presenting with sudden visual loss in the left eye from a central retinal artery occlusion. An extensive clinical investigation revealed no etiology. Three weeks later, however, the patient developed hearing loss followed by encephalopathy and multiple branch retinal artery occlusions in the right eye. Fluorescein angiography confirmed retinal vascular oc...

Progression of retinal artery occlusion from one eye to the other seems to be a characteristic finding in Susac syndrome.

Correspondence address: Abdullah Kaya. GATA Haydarpasa Training Hospital Department of Ophthalmology Istanbul Turkey E-mail: [email protected] Dear Editor; We read the article “Unilateral central retinal artery occlusion as the sole presenting sign of Susac syndrome in a young man: case report” written by Apóstolos-Pereira et al., with interest. They represented a patient who was diagnos...

Acute central retinal artery occlusion presenting as CREST syndrome: a case report

BACKGROUND A 75 year old lady presented with acute central retinal artery occlusion and contralateral cotton wool spots. CASE PRESENTATION General physical examination and investigations led to a diagnosis of CREST syndrome; however, association of central retinal artery occlusion with CREST syndrome is not well known. While diabetes, systemic hypertension, carotid atherosclerosis and cardiac...

Reply: Progression of retinal artery occlusion in Susac syndrome.

We thank Drs. Yildirim, Kar and Kaya for their interest regarding our paper reporting the uncommon occurrence of central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) in Susac syndrome (SS) and for re-emphasizing the point that we have made in the article that SS should be kept in mind even when a patient presents with CRAO in one eye only. However we would like to point out that their statement “retinal art...

Central retinal artery occlusion as the presenting sign of essential thrombocythemia.