VITREOUS HAEMORRHAGE

VITREOUS HAEMORRHAGE : Vitreous hemorrhage is bleeding into the gel-like fluid (vitreous) inside your eye, causing sudden, painless vision loss or a sudden increase in floaters.

Symptoms

• Floaters of sudden onset (Vh is small)

• Sudden painless loss of vision (massive Vh)
   

Causes

• Retinal tear, PVD, RD

• Trauma to eye

• Inflammatory diseases such as acute choroiditis, Eales didease, secondary to Uveitis

• Hypertensive retinopathy

• CRVO

• Diabetic retinopathy

• Retinopathy of anaemia

• Leukamias, polycythemias

• Sickel cell retinopathy

• Exudative ARMD

• Coats disease

• Bleeding disorders-purpura, haemophilia, scurvy

• Neoplasms – retinoblastoma, malignant melanoma of choroid

• Radiation retinopathy

• Retinal capillary aneurysm

• Vitreoretinal Degeneration