A Case of Papillophlebitis in 21-year-old Healthy Male Adult.

Park, Young Jin; Park, Mee Gyeong; Paik, Hae Jung

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1997;38(12):2228-2233.
Published online December 1, 1997.

A Case of Papillophlebitis in 21-year-old Healthy Male Adult.

Young Jin Park, Mee Gyeong Park, Hae Jung Paik

¹Department of Ophthalmology, National police Hospital,Seoul, Korea.
²Department of Ophthalmology, Asan Medical Center Kangnung Hospital, Kangnung, Korea.

건강한 21세 남자에서의 유두정맥염 1예

박영진(Young Jin Park),박미경(Mee Gyeong Park),백혜정(Hae Jung Paik)

Abstract

Papillophlebitis is a central retinal vein occlusion with papillitis and usually occurs in a young healthy adult. It is usually unilateral and symptoms include mild visual impairment, floaters of metamorphopsia. In contrast to central retinal vein occlusion in old age, there is usually no association with diabetes, hyopertension and cardiovascular disorder. Usually the retinal hemorrhage resolves spontaneousaly after several months and the papillitis decreases with good visual outcome. The authors experienced a papillophlebitis in 21-year-old male with sudden visual decrease of left eye. He had no systemic diseases. The patient recovered good vision with systemic steroid treatment. We report this case with review of previous reports.

Key Words: Central retinal vein occlusion;Papillitis;Papillophlebitis;Young adult