Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

Disease External eye findings Fundoscopic findings

Acute pancreatitis l Xanthalasma (seen in

hypertriglyceridemia-related

pancreatitis)

l Corneal arcus (seen in

hypertriglyceridemia-related

pancreatitis)

SL:

l None

l Lipemia retinalis (seen in

hypertriglyceridemia-related pancreatitis)

l Purtscher’s-like Retinopathy (seen in

alcoholic pancreatitis)

Figure 21 Lipemia retinalis

(see color insert).

Figure 22 Purtscher’s-like

retinopathy (see color insert).

Disease External eye findings Fundoscopic findings

Kawasaki’s disease l Bilateral nonexudative bulbar
conjunctivitis (limbal sparing)
l Subconjunctival hemorrhage

SL:

l Anterior uveitis

l Superficial keratitic precipitates

l Papilledema

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Unless otherwise noted, all photographs in this chapter are reproduced with permission from
Penn State Department of Ophthalmology. Digital image reproduction courtesy of ophthalmic
photographers Timothy Bennett, CRA, FOPS, and James D. Strong, BS, CRA.

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