20 year old male with idiopathic elevated episcleral venous pressure: A Case Report
International Journal of Development Research
20 year old male with idiopathic elevated episcleral venous pressure: A Case Report
Received 18th July, 2022; Received in revised form 29th July, 2022; Accepted 06th August, 2022; Published online 20th September, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Armando Castillejos Chévez and Andrea Portilla Demichelis. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
High episcleral venous pressure results in IOP elevation and optic nerve glaucomatous damage. Any obstruction or communication with the arterial system, like a cavernous sinus thrombosis or a carotid cavernous fistula, can impair drainage of the episcleral venous system and cause retrograde IOP elevation. In rare cases, no cause for the high venous pressure is found. Such cases are diagnosed as having Idiopathic Elevated Episcleral Venous Pressure (IEEVP). So far only 27 cases of IEEVP have been published in the English literature, none of them with a follow up of more than one year. We present the case of a 20 year old male with IEEVP that was diagnosed in 2009 and has been under follow up with good IOP control since then.
