Bilateral CRAO and CRVO from thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: OCT findings and treatment with triamcinolone acetonide and bevacizumab

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 420-422

  Schwartz, Stephen G ^a   Hickey, Marcela ^a   Puliafito, Carmen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; CENTRAL RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; DRUG TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS DISEASE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LASER COAGULATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33749470397     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20060901-10     Document Type: Article

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