Papillophlebitis associated with the use of oral contraceptive: a case report
Eski Yücel, O.; Güngor, I.; Gül, A.; Turgut, M.; Aritürk, N.
Gynecological Endocrinology the Official Journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology 31(8): 601-603
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 0951-3590 PMID: 26291803 DOI: 10.3109/09513590.2015.1056139Document Number: 638366
We present a 20-year-old female patient with papillophlebitis in the right eye. Minimal expansion of the blind spot and nasal peripheral defects in the right eye visual field were detected. The patient was using ethinyl estradiol-cyproterone acetate for ovarian cyst and menstrual irregularity. An improvement in the patient's visual field began within a week after cessation of ethinyl estradiol-cyproterone acetate. Ophthalmoscopic findings resolved completely in the sixth week. This situation suggests that female sex hormones or thromboembolic process caused by them may be responsible for the pathogenesis of papillophlebitis. But the exact mechanism in the pathogenesis of papillophlebitis is still controversial.