RETINOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE-PANCREA TITIS

Purtscher's retinopathy is a retinal lesion associated with different diseases such as cardiac aneurism, thoracic compression, bone fracture s, post-trauma, pancreatitis and eclampsia. it consists in the appeara nce of white patches and retinal hemorrhage encircling an apparently n ormal optic disk. There is some controversy about its pathogenesis, bu t a probable cause for the development of this affection might be leuk ocyte emboli activated by complement. We present the case of a patient who developed a Purtscher's like retinopathy while he was being treat ed for pancreatitis.