Table 2 Three patients with combined CRVO and BRAO
From: Comorbidities in combined retinal artery and vein occlusions
Patient age | Diagnoses of systemic diseases |
|---|---|
| Â | (no. of patients) |
11. A 64-year-old male | Arterial hypertension (230/140 mmHg) |
Heart echo: ventricular hypertrophy | |
12. A 48-year-old male | Chronic smoker; |
patient noticed an amaurosis fugax attack 2 weeks earlier | Heart-echo: |
Patent foramen ovale; arterial hypertension; | |
Doppler sonography: normal carotid arteries | |
13. A 33-year-old woman | Taking hormones to become pregnant (Clonifen Galen, woman 1 Tbl/day) for 8 months; chronic smoker; coagulation disturbance due to increased factor VIII activity; heart-echo: normal findings. Cerebral MRT: normal findings |
Mean age: 2 males and 1 female: 48.3 (33–64 years) | Arterial hypertension: patient 11 |
Chronic smoker: patients 12, 13 | |
Hormone treatment: patient 13 | |
Heart-echo: normal findings: patient 13 | |
Coagulation disturbance: patient 13 | |
Patent foramen ovale: patient 12 | |
Ventricular hypertrophy: patient 11 | |
Doppler sonography: normal carotid arteries: patient 12 |