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Emergency contraception and retinal vein thrombosis
  1. STEWART R LAKE,
  2. S A VERNON
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 1EX

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    Editor,—The article by Vesseyet al1 on the ocular complications of oral contraceptives acknowledges the association between oral contraceptives and retinal vein thrombosis. We report a case of a woman with a retinal vein thrombosis affecting the superior retina directly associated with emergency contraception.

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    A 33 year old woman presented to the eye casualty service with a 10 day history of blurred vision in her right eye that had been present on waking the day after she took PC4 emergency contraception prescribed by her general practitioner. She had no …

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