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Presentation of Case

An 80-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of sudden unilateral blindness.

The patient had a long history of medical problems. These included hypertension; mitral and tricuspid regurgitation, which had been treated by valvuloplasties; atrial fibrillation, for which she was taking warfarin; right-sided congestive heart failure; peripheral vascular disease; and chronic renal insufficiency, with a base-line creatinine level as high as 2.4 mg per deciliter (212 µmol per liter). Chronic pancytopenia was ascribed to congestive splenomegaly with hypersplenism. She had undergone a left carotid endarterectomy one year before admission.

Twenty-two days before the admission under discussion, the patient underwent . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Infection

Other Aspects of the Case

Diagnostic Procedure

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Don C. Bienfang's Diagnoses

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis

References

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