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  • Title: [Retinopathy associated with acute pancreatitis].
    Author: D'Alessandro L, Mejía R, Malbrán E, Karol E.
    Journal: Medicina (B Aires); 1994; 54(4):340-2. PubMed ID: 7715432.
    Abstract:
    Purtscher's retinopathy is a retinal lesion associated with different diseases such as cardiac aneurism, thoracic compression, bone fractures, post-trauma, pancreatitis and eclampsia. It consists in the appearance of white patches and retinal hemorrhage encircling an apparently normal optic disk. There is some controversy about its pathogenesis, but a probable cause for the development of this affection might be leukocyte emboli activated by complement. We present the case of a patient who developed a Purtscher's like retinopathy while he was being treated for pancreatitis.
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