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Retinal Artery Thrombosis

This one is an overwhelming disorder with little hope for improvement.

Loss of vision of concerned eye is the result.

Immediate thrombolysis with modern technique should always be tried to relieve the disease.

Happily, this ailment is rare.

In the elderly it has to do with a deficit in Vitamin B12.

In young women it occurs with prescription of the anti-baby pill concomitant with cigarette smoking.

Initial dosage of those 50 years ago was high with a lot more thromboses and emboli of all sorts.

Medical authority reduced doses of prescription and nowadays there are even the mini-pills.

The result is an increased ratio of undesired pregnancy.