PMID- 24008803
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150929
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1998-3689 (Electronic)
IS  - 0301-4738 (Print)
IS  - 0301-4738 (Linking)
VI  - 62
IP  - 4
DP  - 2014 Apr
TI  - Increased choroidal thickness in patient with high-altitude retinopathy.
PG  - 506-7
LID - 10.4103/0301-4738.116483 [doi]
AB  - We report a case of high-altitude retinopathy with increased choroidal thickness 
      detected by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). A 36-year-old 
      Japanese man developed an acute vision decrease in his left eye after he had 
      trekked at an altitude of 4600 m in Tibet for 1 week. His visual acuity was 20/20 
      OD and 20/200 OS with refractive errors of - 0.25 diopters (D) OD and - 0.50 D OS 
      3 weeks after the onset of the visual decrease. Funduscopic examinations revealed 
      multiple intraretinal hemorrhages bilaterally and a macular hemorrhage in the 
      left eye. SD-OCT showed that the thickness of choroidal layer at the fovea was 
      530 mum OD and 490 mum OS which is thicker than that in normal subjects of 
      approximately 300 mum. We suggest that the increase in the retinal blood flow 
      under hypoxic conditions may be associated with an increase in the choroidal 
      blood flow resulting in an increase in choroidal thickness.
FAU - Hirukawa-Nakayama, Kyoko
AU  - Hirukawa-Nakayama K
FAU - Hirakata, Akito
AU  - Hirakata A
FAU - Tomita, Kaoru
AU  - Tomita K
FAU - Hiraoka, Tomoyuki
AU  - Hiraoka T
FAU - Inoue, Makoto
AU  - Inoue M
AD  - Kyorin Eye Center, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - India
TA  - Indian J Ophthalmol
JT  - Indian journal of ophthalmology
JID - 0405376
SB  - IM
EIN - Indian J Ophthalmol. 2014 Jul;62(7):772. Hirakarta, Akito [corrected to Hirakata, 
      Akito]
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Altitude
MH  - Altitude Sickness/*complications/diagnosis
MH  - Choroid
MH  - Diagnosis, Differential
MH  - Fovea Centralis/*pathology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Ophthalmoscopy
MH  - Retinal Diseases/diagnosis/*etiology
MH  - Tomography, Optical Coherence/methods
PMC - PMC4064237
COIS- Conflict of Interest: None declared.
EDAT- 2013/09/07 06:00
MHDA- 2015/09/30 06:00
PMCR- 2014/04/01
CRDT- 2013/09/07 06:00
PHST- 2013/09/07 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/09/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/09/30 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2014/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 116483 [pii]
AID - IJO-62-506 [pii]
AID - 10.4103/0301-4738.116483 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Indian J Ophthalmol. 2014 Apr;62(4):506-7. doi: 10.4103/0301-4738.116483.