Retinal hemorrhage
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Background
- Due to retinal capillary rupture, can be due to acute or chronic processes
- Roth Spots': retinal hemorrhages with white center, seen on fundoscopy
- May be asymptomatic, or cause visual loss
Causes
- Subacute bacterial endocarditis
- Hypertensive retinopathy
- Diabetic retinopathy
- Trauma: nonaccidental trauma (shaken-baby syndrome), intracranial hemorrhage, neonatal birth trauma
- Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (CRAO), Central Retinal Vein Occlusion (CRVO)
- Anemia, leukemia, sickle cell anemia
- Anoxia
- Acute mountain sickness
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Prolonged intubation during anesthesia
- Connective tissue disease, SLE
- Scurvy, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
- Preeclampsia
- Pentoxifylline
- Ocular decompression following trabeculectomy