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ERWIN E. GROSSMANN, M.D.; JOHN B. HITZ, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1948;40(5):570-573.

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LIPEMIA retinalis was first described by Heyl¹ in 1880. The condition is known to occur in cases of hyperlipemia when the fat in the blood is sufficiently emulsified to become visible in the retinal vessels. The hyperlipemia that is associated at times with alcoholism, phosphorus poisoning, pneumonia, peritonitis and starvation has never been known to become ophthalmoscopically visible. Duke-Elder² underlined the statement that "diabetes is the only disease wherein the condition becomes sufficiently marked to be seen ophthalmoscopically in the retinal vessels." Duke-Elder also noted the one exception to this, the case reported by Wagener,³ in 1922, of a 9 year old boy with leukemia who had undergone radiation treatment. Since its first description, in 1880, about 60 cases of lipemia retinalis have been reported in the literature, and it is noteworthy that all these have been of diabetic patients, usually in the younger age groups. Since . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MILWAUKEE

From the Departments of Ophthalmology, Veterans Administration Facility, Woods, Wis., and Marquette University School of Medicine.

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Published with the permission of the Chief Medical Director, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration, who assumes no responsibility for the opinions expressed or the conclusions drawn by the author.

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