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Chapter 16

Case Studies in Retinal Vein Occlusion

This chapter covers a variety of clinical examples of retinal vein occlusions (RVO). They provide a springboard for synthesizing the concepts presented in earlier chapters. RVOs present to the clinician with multiple manifestations. Most of the variations to be found in everyday clinical practice will be found within the examples of this and the other chapters. Abbreviations commonly used in the case studies are listed in Table 16.1. Each abbreviation is spelled out at its first occurrence.

16.1Case 16.1: An Asymptomatic Central Retinal Vein Occlusion with Asymmetric Hemispheric Involvement

An 84-year-old female followed as a primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) suspect was found on regular follow-up examination to have intraretinal hemorrhages distributed throughout the fundus but with some asymmetry. The hemorrhages were densest in the superior hemisphere (Fig. 16.1). She had a history of treated hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. Her visual acuity (VA) was 20/25 in the right eye and 20/40 in the left eye, which was unchanged over the past few years. No confrontation visual field loss was detected, nor was there a relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD). Slit lamp examination showed a

posterior chamber intraocular lens on the right and moderate nuclear sclerosis with pseudoexfoliation on the left. Slit lamp biomicroscopy of the right fundus showed no macular edema (ME). The right optic disc had collateral vessels superiorly. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) showed no subclinical ME.

16.1.1 Discussion

There are many occasions when RVOs will be detected on routine examination in an asymptomatic patient. Examples include branch retinal vein occlusions (BRVO) in a quadrant not involving the macula, small macular BRVOs, and, as in this case, mild nonischemic central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO).

Certain inferences are possible from the clinical data. First, the CRVO is chronic, as indicated by the presence of optic disc collateral vessels. The median time for development of optic disc collateral vessels is 4–15 months in various reports.4-7,11,23,31 The asymmetry of the disc collaterals and the number of hemorrhages can best be explained by noting that the eye has two hemicentral retinal veins rather than a single central retinal vein (Fig. 16.2).

A plausible interpretation of the clinical findings is that the thrombus, which must involve both hemicentral veins, likely extends closer to the lamina cribrosa for the superior hemicentral

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