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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Weekly Clinicopathological Exercises
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Volume 346:603-610 February 21, 2002 Number 8
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Case 6-2002— A 54-Year-Old Woman with Left, Then Right, Central-Retinal-Vein Occlusion
Robert Weinstein, M.D., and Mohammad Mahmood, M.D.

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A 54-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of occlusion of the central retinal vein in her left eye, followed by occlusion of the central retinal vein in her right eye.

The patient had been well until about two years earlier, when she was found to have anemia; no further evaluation was undertaken. One year before admission, fatigue developed, with weakness that progressively worsened to the extent that she could barely walk. During that year, epistaxis occurred with increasing frequency, and she took aspirin for occasional headaches.

Seven months before admission, the patient experienced impaired central vision in her . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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