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Acute Vision Loss Due to Central Retinal Arterial Occlusion, Partial Optic Nerve Avulsion, and Hemorrhage "Spurting Out" from Optic Disc after Blunt Trauma.

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  • A seven-year-old male patient with sudden onset loss of vision in the left eye immediately after blunt trauma to the left eye following a fall from stairs presented to us three days after the trauma

  • Central retinal arterial occlusion is rarely observed after blunt ocular trauma

  • Post-traumatic central retinal arterial occlusion (CRAO) may be associated with traumatic optic neuropathy (TON), optic nerve avulsion,[1] or central retinal venous occlusion resulting in immediate vision loss up to no perception of light (NPL)

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Acute Vision Loss Due to Central Retinal Arterial Occlusion, Partial Optic Nerve Avulsion, and Hemorrhage “Spurting Out” from Optic Disc after Blunt Trauma. Koushik Tripathy, MD; Babulal Kumawat, MD; Rohan Chawla, MD, FRCS (Glasg); Yog Raj Sharma, MS Ravi Bypareddy, MD. Unit I, Department of Retina and Uvea, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

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