Acute painless monocular visual loss due to central retinal artery occlusion in a patient with Churg-Strauss vasculitis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-127

  Skrapari, Ioanna ^a   Kagkelari, Eleftheria ^a   Charitatos, Evangelos ^a   Pantelidaki, Catherine ^a   Gounaris, Theodoros ^a   Sioula, Evagelia ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute blindness; Central retinal artery occlusion; Churg Strauss syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISOLONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; CHERRY RED SPOT; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LABORATORY TEST; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCULAR MASSAGE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PARACENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURAL NERVE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION, LOW;

EID: 36549002307     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-007-0695-x     Document Type: Article

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