@article{22f27ea0e15f4f62a75f98f0e49edb6e,
title = "Occlusive retinal arteriolitis with neovascularization",
abstract = "A 34-year-old white woman who had used oral contraceptives for six years showed an occlusive bilateral retinal arteriolitis that resulted in a branch arteriolar occlusion in the right eye and retinal neovascularization. Three years later, we observed active arteriolitis in the left eye with successive occlusion of several branch arterioles. The disease has shown spontaneous remissions and exacerbations. An extensive medical evaluation revealed only old pulmonary granulomatous disease and an elevated sedimentation rate in association with exacerbations of the arteriolitis.",
author = "Jampol, {Lee M.} and Isenberg, {Sherwin J.} and Goldberg, {Morton F.}",
note = "Funding Information: A 34-year-old white woman was in excellent health until August 1971, when she noted the sudden onset of nasal visual field loss in the right eye, accompanied by a headache. The patient's medical history revealed that she was gravida 6, para 6, and had been using dimethisterone with ethinyl estradiol (Oracon) birth control pills for six years. One year previously she had a urinary tract infection and was noted to have a double ureter on the right. She was also allergic to penicillin. Visual acuity was R.E.: 20/100, and L.E.: 20/20. External examination, slit-lamp biomieroscopy, and intraocular pressures by applanation tonometry were normal. Visual field testing in the right eye revealed loss of inferonasal field. The left visual field was normal. Ophthalmoscopic examination of the right eye showed a pale disk. A white line was described in the retina near the superotemporal vein. The left fundus was normal. Neurologic evaluation including a brain scan, From the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago, Illinois. This study was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship 1-F22-HL00812-01.",
year = "1976",
month = may,
doi = "10.1016/0002-9394(76)90120-3",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "81",
pages = "583--589",
journal = "American journal of ophthalmology",
issn = "0002-9394",
publisher = "Elsevier USA",
number = "5",
}