Iatrogenic central retinal artery occlusion following retrobulbar anesthesia with adrenaline for vitreoretinal surgery: a case report

BACKGROUND: We describe a patient presenting with central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) of the right eye after retrobulbar anesthesia with adrenaline for macular pucker surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient, a 67-year-old Caucasian man, developed a CRAO postoperatively by the next-day control li...

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Autores principales: Confalonieri, Filippo, Ladstein, Gunn Elin, Stene-Johansen, Ingar, Petrovski, Goran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9361630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35941712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-022-03518-0
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: We describe a patient presenting with central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) of the right eye after retrobulbar anesthesia with adrenaline for macular pucker surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient, a 67-year-old Caucasian man, developed a CRAO postoperatively by the next-day control likely due to the retrobulbar injection of a combination of Xylocaine and Bupivacaine with adrenaline as anesthetic. CONCLUSIONS: The addition of adrenaline to the standard anesthetic solution could be a risk factor for serious complications, such as CRAO.

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