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Letter to the Editor
Emergency contraception and retinal vein thrombosis
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Editor,—The article by Vesseyet al 1 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.
CASE REPORT
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 …