Bilateral Central Retinal Vein Occlusion Secondary to Essential Hypertension

Abstract

A 44-year-old male patient presented to the emergency department with bilateral vision loss and bilateral retinal central vein occlusion was detected.The patient was consulted to internal medicine and cardiology departments to investigate the etiology. Blood pressure, sedimentation rate, bloodglucose, lipid profile, plasma protein electrophoresis, blood biochemistry, thyroid function tests, homocysteine, Protein C and S resistance, factor VLeiden mutation, rheumatoid factor, anti-nuclear antibody, serum angiotensin converting enzyme, syphilis antibodies, electrocardiogram, carotidDoppler ultrasonography and urinary system ultrasonography were investigated. Primary hypertension was detected in the patient and other resultswere negative. Etiology should be extensively investigated, especially in patients with bilateral retinal vein occlusion and patients with retinal veinocclusion under the age of 50.