A 70-year-old man presented for an urgent visit to the retina clinic for sudden painless vision loss of his right eye.
The patient had a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, coronary artery disease status post quadruple bypass and type 2 diabetes. Notably, he had been followed for mild to moderate nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy in both eyes without other significant findings for several years and had not seen an ophthalmologist for nearly 8 months at the time of acute presentation. No therapy had been initiated during these prior (Read more...)