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| Year : 2021 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 117-119 |
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Spontaneously resolved severe retinopathy associated with aplastic anemia
Washoo Mal, Mohamed Al-Abri
Ophthalmology, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Mohamed Al-Abri
Department of Ophthalmology, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, P.O. Box 38 Al.Khod, P C 123, Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
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DOI: 10.4103/ojo.ojo_117_21
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Aplastic anemia is a rare, usually autoimmune disorder of bone marrow stem cells leading to pancytopenia and hypoplastic marrow that presents with anemia, infection or bleeding which can be potentially sight and life-threatening. Patients with aplastic anemia may present with various ocular manifestations; lid and orbital hematoma, sub-conjunctival hemorrhage, sudden visual loss due to vitreous hemorrhage or retinopathy and optic disc edema. A young male patient had symptomatic sever bilateral hemorrhagic retinopathy secondary to aplastic anemia; succeeding systemic allogenic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation showed almost complete spontaneous resolution of the retinopathy and significant improvement in vision over a period of 16 weeks.
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