An unusual complication of anticoagulant therapy: bloody tears.
A seventy-two-year-old white male developed bleeding from a right eye subconjunctival hemorrhage. The patient had been taking warfarin and, it was immediately discontinued. Two doses of 15 mgs. each of vitamin K given parentally reduced the prothrombin time, but not the oozing of blood which finally stopped after the administration of fresh frozen plasma. Fortunately, no retrobulbar or intra-ocular bleeding occurred. This complication during the use of anticoagulants has never, to our knowledge, been reported before in the medical literature.
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D000368:Aged; D005130:Eye Hemorrhage / Q000139:chemically induced*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013666:Tears; D014859:Warfarin / Q000009:adverse effects*
D014859:Warfarin