Luxury perfusion following anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.
We present five patients who developed luxury perfusion following anterior ischemic optic neuropathy in whom fluorescein angiography was misinterpreted as "capillary hemangioma" or neovascularization of the disc. In each case, the segment of disc hyperemia corresponded to a spared region of visual field. Luxury perfusion represents a reparative autoregulatory reaction to ischemia.
Friedland
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Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA.
Winterkorn
J M
JM
Burde
R M
RM
D000368:Aged; D002199:Capillary Permeability; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D018917:Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D010477:Perfusion; D012171:Retinal Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D014794:Visual Fields