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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease acute pancreatitis
Phenotype C0035309|retinopathy
Sentences 6
PubMedID- 22432988 Purtscher's retinopathy associated with acute pancreatitis.
PubMedID- 22852104 Purtscher's retinopathy is usually associated with trauma, acute pancreatitis, vasculitis, lupus, and bone fractures.
PubMedID- 25632360 In the particular case of purtscher-like retinopathy associated with acute pancreatitis, it has been proposed that pancreatic damage causes release of proteolytic enzymes into the systemic circulation with subsequent activation of complement cascade and the formation of c5a-induced leukocyte, platelet, and fibrin aggregate that will cause retinal embolization and ischemia, but the true mechanism has not been established yet [10–12].
PubMedID- 21806816 Purtscher-like retinopathy is seen in patients with acute pancreatitis, systemic lupus erythematous, hellp syndrome, and renal failure, as well as in patients with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas with no relation to trauma [5-8].
PubMedID- 24362324 Purtscher's retinopathy associated with acute pancreatitis.
PubMedID- 21847341 An optical coherence tomographic study showed subretinal fluid in the nonperfused areas corresponding to the cotton wool patches in a case of purtscher retinopathy associated with acute pancreatitis.29 likewise, in our case 2, optical coherence tomography showed a hyper-reflective area in the nerve fiber and retinal ganglion cell layer which probably represented secondary edema.

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