Open AccessDramatic recovery of vision in patient with acute central retinal artery occlusion treated with local intra-arterial tissue plasminogen activator
Author(s) -
Edward Margolin,
Amrit Rai,
Jeremy Goldfarb,
Kirill Zaslavsky,
Radha P. Kohly,
Patrick Nicholson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bmj case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.231
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 1757-790X
DOI - 10.1136/bcr-2020-234505
Subject(s) - medicine , central retinal artery occlusion , thrombolysis , central retinal artery , tissue plasminogen activator , occlusion , retinal , surgery , cardiology , ophthalmology , myocardial infarction
Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is a devastating disease resulting in severe visual loss in most cases. It has no proven treatment, and a variety of management options used clinically all have dismal rate of success. We report outcome of treatment with local intra-arterial thrombolysis administered 2.75 hours after devastating visual loss from incomplete CRAO.