Extensive choroidal infarction in a case of mixed essential cryoglobulinaemia in a postpartum female
Brijesh Takkar1, Shorya Vardhan Azad1, Uma Kumar2
1Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
BMJ Case Reports
|September 18, 2016
Abstract:
A case of mixed essential cryoglobulinaemia resulting in massive choroidal infarction and irreversible vision loss in a postpartum female is discussed. Cryoglobulinaemia can rarely involve ocular vessels and, in this case, was adjunctive to mild hypertension in causing acute choroidopathy. Although the systemic condition of the patient improved after steroids and immunosuppressive agents, the visual loss was permanent.


