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Teaching Video NeuroImage: Amaurosis Fugax Due to Recurrent Central Retinal Artery Occlusion by Microemboli

Authors

WEISS Viktor DOLEŽALOVÁ Irena MNUK Tomas LABOUNKOVA Ivana HERZIG Roman NESTRASIL Igor

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Neurology
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Web https://n.neurology.org/content/99/7/313
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000200890
Keywords Amaurosis Fugax; Recurrent Central Retinal Artery Occlusion
Description A previously healthy 71-year-old woman with hypercholesterolemia and current tobacco use presented with transient painless vision loss in the left eye without other neurologic abnormalities. The 30-second episodes, followed by a recovery, repeated in 2- to 3-minute intervals.1 Microemboli passing through central retinal artery (CRA) vasculature (Video 1) originated from a complicated atherosclerotic plaque in the left internal carotid artery (Figure). After receiving intravenous thrombolysis 5 hours after symptom onset,2 she reported a scotoma in the inferior part of her left eye, which persisted 2 years later. Retinal embolism from carotid artery disease is the most common cause of CRA occlusion.

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