Acute Bilateral Retinal Arterial Occlusion of Unknown Origin during a Cystic Fibrosis Pulmonary Exacerbation

Abstract

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder caused by a defective protein, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. The most common complications of this disease involve the pulmonary, gastrointestinal, and endocrine systems, though there are increasing reports of ocular complications related to cystic fibrosis. Here we report a case of a patient with bilateral retinal artery occlusion of unknown etiology. *Corresponding author: Richard Helton, Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, Tel: 5809270222; E-mail: richard-helton@ouhsc.edu Received December 10, 2018; Accepted December 20, 2018; Published December 27, 2018 Citation: Helton R, Allen K (2018) Acute Bilateral Retinal Arterial Occlusion of Unknown Origin during a Cystic Fibrosis Pulmonary Exacerbation. J Pulm Respir Med 8: 481. doi: 10.4172/2161-105X.1000481 Copyright: ©2018 Helton R, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.