[
    {
        "id": "osp-12671",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Purtscher-like retinopathy in acute alcoholic pancreatitis",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Nema",
                "given": "Nitin"
            },
            {
                "family": "Ishrat",
                "given": "Saba"
            },
            {
                "family": "Verma",
                "given": "Abha"
            },
            {
                "family": "Kela",
                "given": "Manoj"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/purtscher-like-retinopathy-in-acute-alcoholic-pancreatitis",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2016
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Oman Journal of Ophthalmology",
        "volume": "9",
        "issue": "2",
        "page": "110-112",
        "DOI": "10.4103/0974-620x.184531",
        "publisher": "Medknow Publications",
        "ISSN": "0974-620X",
        "abstract": "A 23-year-old man with a history of alcoholism presented with vomiting, fever, and sharp epigastric pain radiating to the back and flanks. He was diagnosed as a case of acute alcoholic pancreatitis on the basis of clinical findings and investigations. On the next day of presentation, he developed sudden bilateral visual loss. His best-corrected visual acuity was finger counting at one-foot distance in both eyes. He had diffuse whitening in the circumpapillary area, haloes around the retinal vessels (Purtscher flecken) and intra-retinal hemorrhages on ophthalmoscopic examination. Optical coherence tomography revealed bilateral macular edema. These findings were characteristic of Purtscher-like retinopathy. The patient showed systemic and visual improvement at 8 weeks follow-up after receiving the conventional treatment for acute alcoholic pancreatitis. This case emphasizes the importance of fundus examination by an ophthalmologist in the diagnosis of this rare under-diagnosed entity."
    }
]