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PURPOSE: To reexamine patients diagnosed with central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) during the 10-year period from 1987 to 1996 to identify remaining color vision defects in the eyes with normal visual acuity (VA). METHODS: Thirty-nine patients were found with normal VA of 20/20 (logMAR 0) or better 8 to 166 months (mean +/- SD, 58.8 +/- 41.2) after active CSC. Color vision was examined with the Standard Pseudoisochromatic Plates part 2, Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test, and Color Vision Meter 712 anomaloscope. RESULTS: Of the CSC eyes, 26 (67%) had a color vision defect, most of them in the blue area. There was no correlation between the time since the active disease and the results on the color vision tests. Of the contralateral eyes, 19 (49%) also had a color vision defect. CONCLUSION: In many patients some degree of color vision defect remains after CSC even if the VA has recovered to normal. The contralateral eye can also have a color vision defect. This has not been previously reported and might be due to earlier subclinical CSC.
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Choroid Diseases/complications , Color Vision Defects/etiology , Retinal Diseases/complications , Adult , Color Perception Tests , Color Vision Defects/diagnosis , Exudates and Transudates , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Visual AcuityABSTRACT
The purpose of this article is to describe a 75-year-old patient with an acute central retinal artery occlusion after a local anesthetic with adrenaline on nasal mucosa. The local anesthetic was used in removing Jackson tubes from the left lacrimal canal. Occlusion of the central retinal artery related to nasal operations is a rare complication. In previous reports, retinal artery occlusions have been noted in connection with nasal submucosal injections of anesthetic and epinephrine. In our case, the use of anesthetic and adrenaline was superficial.
