Case history
Case history #1
A 67-year-old man presents with a 2-day history of sudden visual loss in his right eye. He is slightly myopic and had successful cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation 3 years earlier. He does not remember this eye ever having been injured. No pain was associated with the vision loss, and his blood pressure is normal with medication. The patient describes the loss of vision as a veil covering the visual field.
Case history #2
A 71-year-old woman presents after accidentally discovering that she has no vision in her left eye. She covered her right eye as she was scratching her eyelid, and noticed that the left eye was "blind." She has been moderately myopic (-5 D) for decades but has no other significant history.
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