A Case of Papillophlebitis in 21-year-old Healthy Male Adult

ABSTRACT

Papillophlebitis is a central retinal vein occlusion with papillitis and usually occurs in a young healthy adult. It is usually unilateral and symptoms include mild visual impairment, floaters of metamorphopsia. In contrast to central retinal vein occlusion in old age, there is usually no association with diabetes, hyopertension and cardiovascular disorder. Usually the retinal hemorrhage resolves spontaneousaly after several months and the papillitis decreases with good visual outcome. The authors experienced a papillophlebitis in 21-year-old male with sudden visual decrease of left eye. He had no systemic diseases. The patient recovered good vision with systemic steroid treatment. We report this case with review of previous reports.