Central retinal vein occlusion following Sirsasana (headstand posture)

We report a case of central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) following Sirsasana, a head-down postural yoga. A 55-year-old male patient presented to us, with sudden-onset loss of vision following Sirsasana, in the right eye. The patient had suffered from pulmonary thromboembolism 5 years earlier and wa...

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Autores principales: Shah, Nikunj J, Shah, Urmi N
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19075418
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description We report a case of central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) following Sirsasana, a head-down postural yoga. A 55-year-old male patient presented to us, with sudden-onset loss of vision following Sirsasana, in the right eye. The patient had suffered from pulmonary thromboembolism 5 years earlier and was receiving warfarin prophylaxis. Over 6 months of follow-up, the patient developed neovascularization of the iris and was subjected to panretinal laser with no improvement in visual acuity. Sirsasana could be an important risk factor for CRVO especially in predisposed patients.
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spelling pubmed-26615272009-03-27 Central retinal vein occlusion following Sirsasana (headstand posture) Shah, Nikunj J Shah, Urmi N Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications We report a case of central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) following Sirsasana, a head-down postural yoga. A 55-year-old male patient presented to us, with sudden-onset loss of vision following Sirsasana, in the right eye. The patient had suffered from pulmonary thromboembolism 5 years earlier and was receiving warfarin prophylaxis. Over 6 months of follow-up, the patient developed neovascularization of the iris and was subjected to panretinal laser with no improvement in visual acuity. Sirsasana could be an important risk factor for CRVO especially in predisposed patients. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2661527/ /pubmed/19075418 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shah, Nikunj J
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Central retinal vein occlusion following Sirsasana (headstand posture)
title Central retinal vein occlusion following Sirsasana (headstand posture)
title_full Central retinal vein occlusion following Sirsasana (headstand posture)
title_fullStr Central retinal vein occlusion following Sirsasana (headstand posture)
title_full_unstemmed Central retinal vein occlusion following Sirsasana (headstand posture)
title_short Central retinal vein occlusion following Sirsasana (headstand posture)
title_sort central retinal vein occlusion following sirsasana (headstand posture)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19075418
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