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By Mallika Goyal, MD
Apollo Health City
Co-author(s): Sridhar A - Uploaded on Dec 9, 2012.
- Last modified by Chayal Patel on Dec 11, 2012.
- Reviewed by Chayal Patel
- Rating
- Appears in
- Leukemia
- Condition/keywords
- preretinal hemorrhage
- Photographer
- Mallika Goyal, MD, Apollo Health City, Hyderabad, India
- Description
- Right eye of a 21-year-old gentleman with acute myeloid leukemia who is undergoing chemotherapy and has low platelet counts (17,000) shows multiple pre-retinal haemorrhages. Other eye has similar picture. There is no vascular occlusion or inflammation. Visual prognosis remains good with spontaneous resolution expected over few weeks.