An Unusual Association Between Pancreatic Cancer and Purtscher-like Retinopathy

University of Catania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Purtscher Retinopathy; Pancreatic Cancer

Treatments: Drug: Methylprednisolone

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05350384

UCatania666

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About

AN UNUSUAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PANCREATIC CANCER AND PURTSCHER-LIKE RETINOPATHY

Full description

Purtscher's retinopathy may cause sudden loss of vision of varying severity, secondary to head or chest injury. Its pathophysiology is unclear. Purtscher's-like retinopathy has more attenuated clinical and objective features and can be associated with many non-neoplastic pathologies.

Otherwise, an association of this kind of retinopathy with malignancies has been described once in the Literature (multiple myeloma). We present a case report on a unique association between pancreatic cancer and Purtscher-type retinopathy.

Enrollment: 1 patient

Sex: Male

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: NONE -

Exclusion Criteria: NONE