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How does your treatment approach differ in patients with acute visual loss due to central retinal artery occlusion versus retinal vein occlusion?

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Neurology · Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO), is an embolic event in most patients, where the source can be the heart or a plaque in the aorta or internal carotid artery. A prompt workup for the source is important. Central retinal vein occlusion is more often just the result of risk factors (such as dia...

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Neurology · University of Colorado, Climate & Health Dept

I agree. CRAO is a stroke equivalent and worked up as such. But in the acute setting, IV and even IA TPA/TNK are considerations albeit with limited data.

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