CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC NADIR-ASSOCIATED RETINOPATHY

Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2017:11 Suppl 1:S38-S40. doi: 10.1097/ICB.0000000000000396.

Abstract

Purpose: To describe subinternal limiting membrane hemorrhage as a retinal complication of chemotherapy nadir in a patient with leukemia.

Methods: Case report.

Results: A 23-year-old man presented with bilateral subinternal limiting membrane hemorrhages in both eyes as a manifestation of thrombocytopenia secondary to chemotherapy treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.

Conclusion: Chemotherapeutic nadir-associated retinopathy may present with sub-internal limiting membrane hemorrhages most probably secondary to thrombocytopenia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / adverse effects*
  • Basement Membrane / pathology
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / drug therapy
  • Male
  • Retinal Hemorrhage / etiology*
  • Thrombocytopenia / chemically induced
  • Thrombocytopenia / complications*
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents