A Case of Advanced Glaucoma with Increased Episcleral Venous Pressure in a 17-Year-Old with Eisenmenger Syndrome

Eisenmenger syndrome refers to reversal of shunt and central cyanosis due to pulmonary hypertension induced by congenital heart disease with a large systemic-to-pulmonary shunt. We report a case of a 17-year-old man with Eisenmenger syndrome who presented with gradual deterioration in visual acuity...

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Autores principales: Grech, Leanne, Mifsud, Adrian, Caruana, Maryanne, Carbonaro, Francis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5672606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29201477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5808047
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author Grech, Leanne
Mifsud, Adrian
Caruana, Maryanne
Carbonaro, Francis
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Mifsud, Adrian
Caruana, Maryanne
Carbonaro, Francis
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description Eisenmenger syndrome refers to reversal of shunt and central cyanosis due to pulmonary hypertension induced by congenital heart disease with a large systemic-to-pulmonary shunt. We report a case of a 17-year-old man with Eisenmenger syndrome who presented with gradual deterioration in visual acuity and was diagnosed with advanced secondary open angle glaucoma. There have been reports of patients suffering from thrombosis due to hyperviscosity associated with this syndrome; however, to our knowledge, the association of secondary open angle glaucoma with Eisenmenger syndrome has not yet been documented.
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spelling pubmed-56726062017-12-03 A Case of Advanced Glaucoma with Increased Episcleral Venous Pressure in a 17-Year-Old with Eisenmenger Syndrome Grech, Leanne Mifsud, Adrian Caruana, Maryanne Carbonaro, Francis Case Rep Ophthalmol Med Case Report Eisenmenger syndrome refers to reversal of shunt and central cyanosis due to pulmonary hypertension induced by congenital heart disease with a large systemic-to-pulmonary shunt. We report a case of a 17-year-old man with Eisenmenger syndrome who presented with gradual deterioration in visual acuity and was diagnosed with advanced secondary open angle glaucoma. There have been reports of patients suffering from thrombosis due to hyperviscosity associated with this syndrome; however, to our knowledge, the association of secondary open angle glaucoma with Eisenmenger syndrome has not yet been documented. Hindawi 2017 2017-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5672606/ /pubmed/29201477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5808047 Text en Copyright © 2017 Leanne Grech et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Grech, Leanne
Mifsud, Adrian
Caruana, Maryanne
Carbonaro, Francis
A Case of Advanced Glaucoma with Increased Episcleral Venous Pressure in a 17-Year-Old with Eisenmenger Syndrome
title A Case of Advanced Glaucoma with Increased Episcleral Venous Pressure in a 17-Year-Old with Eisenmenger Syndrome
title_full A Case of Advanced Glaucoma with Increased Episcleral Venous Pressure in a 17-Year-Old with Eisenmenger Syndrome
title_fullStr A Case of Advanced Glaucoma with Increased Episcleral Venous Pressure in a 17-Year-Old with Eisenmenger Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Advanced Glaucoma with Increased Episcleral Venous Pressure in a 17-Year-Old with Eisenmenger Syndrome
title_short A Case of Advanced Glaucoma with Increased Episcleral Venous Pressure in a 17-Year-Old with Eisenmenger Syndrome
title_sort case of advanced glaucoma with increased episcleral venous pressure in a 17-year-old with eisenmenger syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5672606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29201477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5808047
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