Retinal hemorrhage: Difference between revisions
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'''Roth Spots''' - retinal hemorrhages with white center | '''Roth Spots''' - retinal hemorrhages with white center | ||
Pathogenosis - retinal capillary rupture and | Pathogenosis - retinal capillary rupture and reparative process (platelet adhesion in center of hemorrhage) | ||
Causes | Causes | ||
* subacute bacterial endocarditis - considered | * subacute bacterial endocarditis - considered pathognomonic | ||
* | * leukemias | ||
* | * anemia | ||
* anoxia | * anoxia | ||
* sickle cell | * sickle cell | ||
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* systemic lupus erythematosus | * systemic lupus erythematosus | ||
* carbon monoxide poisoning | * carbon monoxide poisoning | ||
* prolonged intubation during | * prolonged intubation during anesthesia | ||
* hypertensive retinopathy | * hypertensive retinopathy | ||
* pre-eclampsia | * pre-eclampsia | ||
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* neonatal birth trauma | * neonatal birth trauma | ||
* mothers who have undergone traumatic deliveries | * mothers who have undergone traumatic deliveries | ||
* battered children / shaken | * battered children / shaken baby syndrome | ||
* intracranial haemorrhage | * intracranial haemorrhage from arteriovenous malformation | ||
* ocular decompression following trabeculectomy | * ocular decompression following trabeculectomy | ||
<ref>Ehlers JP, Shah CP. Wills Eye Manual, The: Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008.</ref><ref>Ling R, James B. White-centred retinal haemorrhages (Roth spots).Postgrad Med J. 1998 Oct;74(876):581-2.</ref> | <ref>Ehlers JP, Shah CP. Wills Eye Manual, The: Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008.</ref><ref>Ling R, James B. White-centred retinal haemorrhages (Roth spots).Postgrad Med J. 1998 Oct;74(876):581-2.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 00:03, 9 December 2016
Roth Spots - retinal hemorrhages with white center
Pathogenosis - retinal capillary rupture and reparative process (platelet adhesion in center of hemorrhage)
Causes
- subacute bacterial endocarditis - considered pathognomonic
- leukemias
- anemia
- anoxia
- sickle cell
- connective tissue disease
- scurvy
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- carbon monoxide poisoning
- prolonged intubation during anesthesia
- hypertensive retinopathy
- pre-eclampsia
- diabetes
- neonatal birth trauma
- mothers who have undergone traumatic deliveries
- battered children / shaken baby syndrome
- intracranial haemorrhage from arteriovenous malformation
- ocular decompression following trabeculectomy