Neuroretinopathy following Haemorrhage with a Discussion on the Nature of Cytoid Bodies.

HAEMORRHAGE from any site, and the commonest is the gut, may provoke two profound disturbances of the retina. The best recognized is blindness which begins suddenly, and is associated with subsequent swelling of the disc and often with optic atrophy. A less known but common sequel is a neuroretinopathy, first described by Ulrich (1887) and closely resembling ophthalmoscopically the neuroretinopathy of the malignant phase of hypertension. One case of the first type and seven of the second type were described as sequels of gastro-intestinal haemorrhage by Pears and Pickering (1960). Case 7 of their series died, and we here briefly describe the clinical history and the details of the ocular changes.