Could a blood clot behind the eye cause u to go blind in that particular eye??

Question

My father woke up this morning and was completly seeing black in one eye..he went to the eye dr and he said it was a clot and it burst..he said there was no way to fix it...he will be blind in that eye..my father is 76 years and has PAD (Peripheral Artery Disease)...

Answer 1

yes if it burst then he could go blind........but if it is just the clot then no.......but there is no way to fix a bursted clot that i know of unless laser surgery or sumthing........have him get a 2nd or 3rd opinion......good luck

Answer 2

Your father basically sounds like he had a stroke. If you have athersclerotic vascular disease, basically clogging or narrowing of the arteries, you can have it anywhere. One of two things could have happened. Your father had an unstable plaque that broke off and clotted the artery feeding part of the brain that relays information to the brain or to the optic nerve or a clot could have formed to block one of those arteries. If he has lost total vision and it is black and it suddenly happened, your dad nneds to go to the ER and be seen, he is at risk for additional strokes and may need to be placed on blood thinners if appropirate. He needs to see a doctor as soon as possible. Does he have a condition called atrial fibrilliation? If so one can form clots in the heart that can shoot up to the brain and this must be treated to decrease stroke risk. Please have your dad checked out immediately.

Answer 3

It could over a period of time. But I would recommend you go and see a optometrist for this problem.

Answer 4

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