An unusual complication of anticoagulant therapy: bloody tears
Kleis, W.; Hernández-Denton, G.; Hernández-Morales, F.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico 81(7): 275-276
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-4849 PMID: 2775404 Document Number: 700227
A seventy-two-year-old white male developed bleeding from a right eye subconjunctival hemorrhage. The patient had been taking warfarin and, it was immediately discontinued. Two doses of 15 mgs. each of vitamin K given parentally reduced the prothrombin time, but not the oozing of blood which finally stopped after the administration of fresh frozen plasma. Fortunately, no retrobulbar or intra-ocular bleeding occurred. This complication during the use of anticoagulants has never, to our knowledge, been reported before in the medical literature.
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