Purtscher-like retinopathy: A rare complication of peribulbar anesthesia

Purtscher and Purtscher-like retinopathy is a distinctive retinal syndrome characterized by ischemic retinal whitening in a peripapillary pattern. We report a case of Purtscher-like retinopathy in a healthy 64-year-old man after a routine peribulbar anesthetic injection for cataract surgery. Althoug...

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Autores principales: Narendran, Siddharth, Saravanan, V R, Pereira, Merlyn
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27488158
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.187679
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description Purtscher and Purtscher-like retinopathy is a distinctive retinal syndrome characterized by ischemic retinal whitening in a peripapillary pattern. We report a case of Purtscher-like retinopathy in a healthy 64-year-old man after a routine peribulbar anesthetic injection for cataract surgery. Although peribulbar anesthesia is considered to be a safer alternative to retrobulbar anesthesia, it has been associated with unusual but grave complications including central retinal artery occlusion.
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spelling pubmed-49911822016-09-07 Purtscher-like retinopathy: A rare complication of peribulbar anesthesia Narendran, Siddharth Saravanan, V R Pereira, Merlyn Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Purtscher and Purtscher-like retinopathy is a distinctive retinal syndrome characterized by ischemic retinal whitening in a peripapillary pattern. We report a case of Purtscher-like retinopathy in a healthy 64-year-old man after a routine peribulbar anesthetic injection for cataract surgery. Although peribulbar anesthesia is considered to be a safer alternative to retrobulbar anesthesia, it has been associated with unusual but grave complications including central retinal artery occlusion. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4991182/ /pubmed/27488158 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.187679 Text en Copyright: © 2016 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Narendran, Siddharth
Saravanan, V R
Pereira, Merlyn
Purtscher-like retinopathy: A rare complication of peribulbar anesthesia
title Purtscher-like retinopathy: A rare complication of peribulbar anesthesia
title_full Purtscher-like retinopathy: A rare complication of peribulbar anesthesia
title_fullStr Purtscher-like retinopathy: A rare complication of peribulbar anesthesia
title_full_unstemmed Purtscher-like retinopathy: A rare complication of peribulbar anesthesia
title_short Purtscher-like retinopathy: A rare complication of peribulbar anesthesia
title_sort purtscher-like retinopathy: a rare complication of peribulbar anesthesia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27488158
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.187679
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