Roth spots
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Background
- Finding on fundoscopy of white-centred retinal hemorrhages
- Classically associated with infective endocarditis
Etiologies
- Subacute bacterial endocarditis
- Leukemia
- Myeloma
- Anemia
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Prolonged intubation during anesthesia
- Preeclampsia
- Hypertension
- Diabetic retinopathy
- HIV retinopathy
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Complicated labour
- Shaken baby syndrome
- Intracranial hemorrhage from AVM or aneurysm
- Acute reduction of intraocular pressure following trabeculectomy
