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Case Reports
. 2021 Jul-Aug;66(4):668-673.
doi: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2020.06.007. Epub 2020 Jul 4.

A shotgun wedding

Leroy Ekeh  1 , Christopher R Dermarkarian  1 , Rod Foroozan  2 , M Tariq Bhatti  3
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A shotgun wedding

Leroy Ekeh et al. Surv Ophthalmol. 2021 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

A 69-year-old woman developed a carotid-cavernous fistula (CCF) after firing a shotgun. Initially, the patient had mild visual symptoms, but later on developed prominent features of CCF including chemosis, proptosis, ophthalmoparesis and conjunctival injection . The fistula was embolized via an intravascular coiling procedure. We are unaware of another patient who developed a CCF due to blunt force from shotgun use.

Keywords: Angiogram; Blunt Trauma; Carotid-cavernous fistula; Exophthalmos; Gun Use.

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