An otherwise healthy 24-year-old man presented with a painless decrease of vision in the left eye for 2 days. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in the right eye and 20/80 in the left eye. Anterior exam was unremarkable and funduscopic exam in the left eye revealed retinal hemorrhages in all four quadrants with venous dilation and tortuosity consistent with central retinal vein occlusion. F...

purpose: to evaluate the etiologic and epidemiologic findings in central retinal artery occlusion (crao) patients in a tertiary eye center in tehran, iran. methods: all patients with crao refered to the emergency department of farabi hospital during 2001-2002 were enrolled in the study. all patients received routine treatment and were followed for 3 months. cardiology consult was done for all p...

The hypothesis that an occlusion of the central retinal artery is an essential prerequisite for haemorrhage formation after central retinal vein obstruction has been investigated by examining the fundus changes in patients with a cilio-retinal arterial circulation; the findings are at variance with the 'combined occlusion hypothesis'. Comparisons were made between the pathological features in t...