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CASE REPORT
Retinal haemorrhages: a clue to the underlying leukaemia
  1. Mudit Tyagi,
  2. Komal Agarwal,
  3. Remya Maureen Paulose,
  4. Padmaja Kumari Rani
  1. Smt Kanuri Santhamma Center for Vitreo Retinal Diseases, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Padmaja Kumari Rani, rpk111{at}gmail.com

Summary

A 40-year-old man presented with a sudden onset of diminution of vision in his left eye for 2 days. Anterior segment of both eyes was within normal limits. Right eye retinal evaluation was normal. However, the left eye retinal evaluation showed isolated subinternal limiting membrane haemorrhage at the fovea along with a white-centred haemorrhage above the fovea. There was no antecedent history of trauma or valsalva. He was normotensive and his glycaemic status was also normal. His blood investigations along with peripheral smear were done, which helped to clinch the diagnosis of an underlying chronic myeloid leukaemia.

  • haematology (including blood transfusion)
  • retina

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Footnotes

  • Contributors MT and RMP diagnosed and clinically managed the case. MT, KA and PKR did the research for the manuscript and a literature review. RMP wrote the manuscript along with doing a literature review for the manuscript. MT and PKR did the future corrections and revisions of the manuscript.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Patient consent Obtained.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.