Non-traumatic Retinal Detachment Diagnosed via Bedside Ultrasonography

The authors report a case of an elderly patient with left eye retinal detachment who presented to the emergency department (ED). Bedside ultrasonography of the retina revealed a hyperechoic, smooth, folded membrane within the vitreous, consistent with a diagnosis of retinal detachment. Ophthalmologi...

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Autores principales: Roka, Abhishek, Rubero, Jose A, Rosario, Javier, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6084687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30109164
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2771
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description The authors report a case of an elderly patient with left eye retinal detachment who presented to the emergency department (ED). Bedside ultrasonography of the retina revealed a hyperechoic, smooth, folded membrane within the vitreous, consistent with a diagnosis of retinal detachment. Ophthalmological consultation was obtained, and the patient healed well after surgical repair.
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spelling pubmed-60846872018-08-14 Non-traumatic Retinal Detachment Diagnosed via Bedside Ultrasonography Roka, Abhishek Rubero, Jose A Rosario, Javier Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine The authors report a case of an elderly patient with left eye retinal detachment who presented to the emergency department (ED). Bedside ultrasonography of the retina revealed a hyperechoic, smooth, folded membrane within the vitreous, consistent with a diagnosis of retinal detachment. Ophthalmological consultation was obtained, and the patient healed well after surgical repair. Cureus 2018-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6084687/ /pubmed/30109164 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2771 Text en Copyright © 2018, Roka et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Roka, Abhishek
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Non-traumatic Retinal Detachment Diagnosed via Bedside Ultrasonography
title Non-traumatic Retinal Detachment Diagnosed via Bedside Ultrasonography
title_full Non-traumatic Retinal Detachment Diagnosed via Bedside Ultrasonography
title_fullStr Non-traumatic Retinal Detachment Diagnosed via Bedside Ultrasonography
title_full_unstemmed Non-traumatic Retinal Detachment Diagnosed via Bedside Ultrasonography
title_short Non-traumatic Retinal Detachment Diagnosed via Bedside Ultrasonography
title_sort non-traumatic retinal detachment diagnosed via bedside ultrasonography
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6084687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30109164
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2771
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