Superior Ophthalmic Vein Thrombosis Developed after Orbital Cellulitis

Abstract

A 65-year-old female patient presented with eye pain, swelling and blurred vision in the left eye. Routine biochemistry and microbiological analyzes were conducted. Orbital tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings, and cerebral angiography were performed. Orbital cellulitis due to a complication of ethmoidal sinusitis was diagnosed with thrombosis of the SOV in the patient. Systemic broad-spectrum antibiotic and anticoagulant therapy was started on the patient. The patient's symptoms were recorded at the end of two weeks of the treatment.

• Cavernous vein thrombosis
• orbital cellulitis
• sinusitis
• superior ophthalmic vein thrombosis