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Asim Kumar Ghosh1, G Bhaduri, Ajoy D Sarkar
1Department of Ophthalmology, Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Kolkata.
Abstract:
A 14- year-old boy presented at the outpatients' department with the complaint of visual loss in the right eye of 1 1/2 months duration. He had the history of snakebite for which he was admitted to hospital. The diminution of vision started next day after snakebite. On examination, he had no perception of light in his right eye. USG B scan showed vitreous haemorrhage in his right eye. He was given IV methylpredinisolone. At follow-up after one month he still had no perception of light in his right eye with the haemorrhage in the vitreous subsided.
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