Evaluation of bilateral central retinal artery occlusions with optical coherence tomography-based microangiography: a case report

BACKGROUND: We report a case of bilateral central retinal artery occlusion and the evaluation of retinal vasculature and capillaries by using optical coherence tomography angiography. CASE PRESENTATION: A 75-year-old white man presented with central retinal artery occlusion in one eye and underwent...

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Autores principales: Lee, Aaron Y., Zhang, Qinqin, Baughman, Douglas M., Mudumbai, Raghu, Wang, Ruikang K., Lee, Cecilia S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5090894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27802835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1095-0
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author Lee, Aaron Y.
Zhang, Qinqin
Baughman, Douglas M.
Mudumbai, Raghu
Wang, Ruikang K.
Lee, Cecilia S.
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description BACKGROUND: We report a case of bilateral central retinal artery occlusion and the evaluation of retinal vasculature and capillaries by using optical coherence tomography angiography. CASE PRESENTATION: A 75-year-old white man presented with central retinal artery occlusion in one eye and underwent a carotid angioplasty. Upon discontinuing anticoagulant, he had a subsequent central retinal artery occlusion in the other eye. Optical coherence tomography angiography images were obtained to compare the retinal microvasculature in both eyes. CONCLUSIONS: Atrophy of the involved retina continues for several weeks after central retinal artery occlusion but the loss of retinal capillaries is immediate and stable over time. The presence of cilioretinal arteries that perfuse the central macula can prevent profound vision loss.
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spelling pubmed-50908942016-11-07 Evaluation of bilateral central retinal artery occlusions with optical coherence tomography-based microangiography: a case report Lee, Aaron Y. Zhang, Qinqin Baughman, Douglas M. Mudumbai, Raghu Wang, Ruikang K. Lee, Cecilia S. J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: We report a case of bilateral central retinal artery occlusion and the evaluation of retinal vasculature and capillaries by using optical coherence tomography angiography. CASE PRESENTATION: A 75-year-old white man presented with central retinal artery occlusion in one eye and underwent a carotid angioplasty. Upon discontinuing anticoagulant, he had a subsequent central retinal artery occlusion in the other eye. Optical coherence tomography angiography images were obtained to compare the retinal microvasculature in both eyes. CONCLUSIONS: Atrophy of the involved retina continues for several weeks after central retinal artery occlusion but the loss of retinal capillaries is immediate and stable over time. The presence of cilioretinal arteries that perfuse the central macula can prevent profound vision loss. BioMed Central 2016-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5090894/ /pubmed/27802835 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1095-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Case Report
Lee, Aaron Y.
Zhang, Qinqin
Baughman, Douglas M.
Mudumbai, Raghu
Wang, Ruikang K.
Lee, Cecilia S.
Evaluation of bilateral central retinal artery occlusions with optical coherence tomography-based microangiography: a case report
title Evaluation of bilateral central retinal artery occlusions with optical coherence tomography-based microangiography: a case report
title_full Evaluation of bilateral central retinal artery occlusions with optical coherence tomography-based microangiography: a case report
title_fullStr Evaluation of bilateral central retinal artery occlusions with optical coherence tomography-based microangiography: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of bilateral central retinal artery occlusions with optical coherence tomography-based microangiography: a case report
title_short Evaluation of bilateral central retinal artery occlusions with optical coherence tomography-based microangiography: a case report
title_sort evaluation of bilateral central retinal artery occlusions with optical coherence tomography-based microangiography: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5090894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27802835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1095-0
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