An 88-year-old woman developed an acute onset of painless, monocular vision loss in the right eye.
She had a medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, stage 3 chronic kidney disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease, anxiety and diverticulitis.
She had presented to the emergency department 2 days prior for several days of discomfort with swallowing, increasing generalized weakness and bloody stools and had been admitted with an acute gastrointestinal (GI) bleed, symptomatic anemia and oropharyngeal dysphagia. During her inpatient admission and before ophthalmic