Visual loss in Takayasu Arteritis – Look Beyond the Eye
Published: August 1, 2014 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2014/.4711
Jayanthi Peter, George Joseph, Vivek Mathew, John Victor Peter
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
2. Professor and Head, Department of Cardiology Unit I, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
3. Professor, Department of Neurology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
4. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Jayanthi Peter,
Schell Eye Hospital, Christian Medical College,Vellore 632004, India.
Phone : +91 9994067762, E-mail : peterjohnvictor@yahoo.com.au
Patients with Takayasu arteritis often present with reduced vision related either to the disease per se or due to complications of therapy. We report a patient with Takayasu arteritis who developed acute onset bilateral visual loss 6wks following percutaneous revascularization of occluded aortic arch branches. No ocular cause for the visual loss was evident. The reason for visual loss in this patient was an extraocular cause. Ocular and extraocular causes of visual loss in Takayasu arteritis are discussed.
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