NCT05350384

An Unusual Association Between Pancreatic Cancer and Purtscher-like Retinopathy

An Unusual Association Between Pancreatic Cancer and Purtscher-like Retinopathy: Presentation of a Unique Case

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Catania · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

AN UNUSUAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PANCREATIC CANCER AND PURTSCHER-LIKE RETINOPATHY

Detailed description

Purtscher's retinopathy may cause sudden loss of vision of varying severity, secondary to head or chest injury. Its pathophysiology is unclear. Purtscher's-like retinopathy has more attenuated clinical and objective features and can be associated with many non-neoplastic pathologies. Otherwise, an association of this kind of retinopathy with malignancies has been described once in the Literature (multiple myeloma). We present a case report on a unique association between pancreatic cancer and Purtscher-type retinopathy.

Conditions

• Purtscher Retinopathy
• Pancreatic Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Methylprednisolone	1 g. of methylprednisolone in saline solution 250 cc once a day for 5 days, and one eye drops of Diclofenac per eye 3 times a day for 30 days

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-18
• Primary completion: 2021-07-31
• Completion: 2021-11-01
• First posted: 2022-04-28
• Last updated: 2022-04-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy