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Guerinik M

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• Case Report
  Blindness in Anti Vitamin K: Unusual Location: About a Case
  Author(s): Salmi A and Guerinik M Salmi A and Guerinik M
  
  We report the case of a patient hospitalized for management of orbital hematoma on overdose with oral anticoagulants. With the increase of the hematoma and protrusion of the eyeball, the patient came to ICU, including CT scan of the eye had objectified hemorrhagic infiltration of the orbit, head of exophthalmos. Laboratory tests, found a INR greater than 9. The treatment consisted of a vitamin K antagonist by the associated PFC in default of prothrombin complex concentrate. Ophthalmological, evolution was marked by a one-sided final straight blindness. .. View More»
  

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