The New England Journal of Medicine
e-mail icon  FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |    Advanced Search
Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe
 
Images in Clinical Medicine
PreviousPrevious
Volume 355:e7 August 24, 2006 Number 8
NextNext

Ocular Bleeding Due to Anticoagulation

Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

 Sign up for free e-toc
 

This Article
-Full Text
- PDF

Tools and Services
-Add to Personal Archive
-Add to Citation Manager
-Notify a Friend
-E-mail When Cited
-E-mail When Letters Appear

More Information
-PubMed Citation
Figure Removed (Available Only in the Full Text)
View larger version (77K):



 
An 83-year-old woman with a history of hypertension, glaucoma, and atrial fibrillation, who had a pacemaker and was receiving warfarin, woke up with a sensation of pain in the right eye and noticed what she thought was a big bruise. She had no headache, trauma, nuchal rigidity, nausea, or photophobia. Physical examination showed a subconjunctival hemorrhage in the right eye, as well as a defect in the nasal and superior temporal visual field, periorbital ecchymosis, and edema. The patient's visual acuity was unchanged from baseline. The blood pressure was 192/90 mm Hg, the intraocular pressure was 20 mm Hg, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 



HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org

Comments and questions? Please contact us.

The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.