Bilateral branch retinal vein occlusion

Jon Bourton shows us another case study from the Institute of Optometry, a somewhat unusual presentation of a familiar condition

A Caucasian male aged 68 attended for an eye examination due to a sudden and rapid reduction in visual acuities, first noticed two weeks previously. The patient reported that he woke one morning to find he was unable to read the newspaper even with his reading spectacles and from that point on he had noticed a bilateral reduction in both his distance and near visual acuities. Visions were: 6/60 in the right eye and 6/60 in the left eye.

Subjective finding: