Table 2.
Three patients with combined CRVO and BRAO
|
Patient age |
Diagnoses of systemic diseases |
|---|---|
| (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 |