[Traumatic vitreous-retinal hemorrhage in infants].

Abstract

After a short review of the non-traumatic, and rare, causes of vitreoretinal hemorrhages in infants, we analyze the 4 situations where a traumatic hemorrhage can be found: accidental head trauma, which has to be very severe and is then an unfrequent etiology, head trauma in child abuse or the so-called "shaken baby syndrome", which is the most frequent cause, and where we point out the key role of the ophthalmologist in the diagnosis and the prognostic evaluation, the perinatal trauma, which is a frequent, benign, and ephemeral cause, and finally, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which is a controversial and unlikely cause.

• Authors: A C Gribomont
• Journal: Bulletin de la Societe belge d'ophtalmologie (Bull Soc Belge Ophtalmol) Issue 281 Pg. 5-11 ( 2001) ISSN: 0081-0746 [Print] Belgium
• Vernacular Title: Hemorragies traumatiques vitreo-retiniennes de l'enfant.
• PMID: 11702644 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article, Review)

Topics

• Birth Injuries (complications)
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (adverse effects)
• Child Abuse (diagnosis)
• Craniocerebral Trauma (complications)
• Humans
• Infant
• Prognosis
• Retinal Hemorrhage (etiology)
• Vitreous Hemorrhage (etiology)
• Whiplash Injuries (complications)