A 15-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with a history of bilateral blurred vision for one day, with greater severity in the right eye. Fundus examinations revealed cotton wool spots, dot hemorrhage, and hard exudate. She underwent optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), which showed the presence of macula ischemia, decreased vascular density, mild retinal fluid, severe ischemia, some macular edema, and vascular sheathing, indicating active vasculitis in the right eye.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPost-infectious glomerulonephritis (PIGN) is an injury to glomerules mediated by the immune response after infection, and it is commonly seen in children. However, the elderly with immunocompromised conditions are at higher risk of developing PIGN after a recent infection. A 74-year-old female presented to the ER with a history of severe, sharp, on and off left flank pain for two days.
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