Retinal haemorrhage and fatal stroke in an infant with fibromuscular dysplasia.
Non-accidental injury should be suspected and excluded in any infant found to have intracranial and retinal haemorrhage of unknown aetiology. This can be a sensitive issue for both medical staff and parents. We present a case in which the underlying cause of intracranial and retinal haemorrhage was fibromuscular dysplasia. It was a diagnosis made only at postmortem examination and it illustrates the diagnostic difficulty such cases may present.
Currie
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Western Eye Hospital, London NW1 5YE, UK. ali.currie4@virgin.net
Bentley
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Bloom
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D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005352:Fibromuscular Dysplasia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012166:Retinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed