An Unusual Case of Bilateral Hemorrhagic Chemosis in the Intensive Care Unit

Critically ill patients cannot complain about eye problems. Eyecare is often overlooked in the intensive care units (ICUs) because treatment is mainly focused on failures of organ which results in eye complications which are preventable. Therefore, we report a case of a patient admitted to the ICU w...

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Autores principales: Ajibawo, Temitope, Zahid, Erum, Leykind, Yelena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7486016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32923272
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9679
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description Critically ill patients cannot complain about eye problems. Eyecare is often overlooked in the intensive care units (ICUs) because treatment is mainly focused on failures of organ which results in eye complications which are preventable. Therefore, we report a case of a patient admitted to the ICU who developed unusual bilateral hemorrhagic chemosis. Although, chemosis has been encountered often in the ICU, hemorrhagic chemosis without prior direct trauma is unusual.
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spelling pubmed-74860162020-09-12 An Unusual Case of Bilateral Hemorrhagic Chemosis in the Intensive Care Unit Ajibawo, Temitope Zahid, Erum Leykind, Yelena Cureus Internal Medicine Critically ill patients cannot complain about eye problems. Eyecare is often overlooked in the intensive care units (ICUs) because treatment is mainly focused on failures of organ which results in eye complications which are preventable. Therefore, we report a case of a patient admitted to the ICU who developed unusual bilateral hemorrhagic chemosis. Although, chemosis has been encountered often in the ICU, hemorrhagic chemosis without prior direct trauma is unusual. Cureus 2020-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7486016/ /pubmed/32923272 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9679 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ajibawo 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.
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