Double prepapillary arterial loops associated with superior branch macular artery occlusion.
Prepapillary arterial loops are congenital vascular anomalies that have been noted to cause arterial occlusions. We report a case of superior branch macular artery occlusion in an eye with two independent prepapillary arterial loops, following a Valsalva-like mechanism.
Vedantham
Vasumathy
V
Retina-Vitreous Service, Aravind Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, 1 Anna Nagar, Madurai, India. drvasumathy@yahoo.com
Ramasamy
Kim
K
Namperumalsamy
P
P
Cunningham
Emmett T
ET
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000098:blood supply*; D012161:Retinal Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D015356:Retinal Artery Occlusion / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014636:Valsalva Maneuver; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D014792:Visual Acuity