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By Thomas A. Ciulla, MD, MBA, FASRS
Indiana University School of Medicine - Uploaded on Aug 10, 2014.
- Last modified by Caroline Bozell on Aug 10, 2014.
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- Submacular Hemorrhage Treated by Vitrectomy TPA Gas
- Condition/keywords
- wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), submacular hemorrhage, tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), vitrectomy
- Description
- A 90-year-old woman presented with sudden loss of central vision OS of 1 week. Her VA was finger counting OS, with mild-moderate vitreous hemorrhage and large preretinal and subretinal hemorrhage, felt to be due to AMD or retinal artery macroaneurysm.