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Chronic Ocular Ischemia and Carotid Vascular Disease

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Amaurosis Fugax

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Although most ocular manifestations of extracranial cerebrovascular disease have a strokelike temporal profile, some patients have ocular abnormalities that are most compatible with a chronic state of ocular ischemia and have evidence of severe, usually bilateral, extracranial cerebrovascular occlusive disease. Similar ocular findings may be seen in other conditions that produce chronic retinal ischemia or altered retinal blood flow, but in some situations it is difficult to dismiss the associated cerebrovascular occlusive disease as an incidental finding.

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  1. Division of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, 10666 North Torrey Pines Road, 92037, La Jolla, California, USA

    Eugene F. Bernstein M.D., Ph.D. (Adjunct Professor of Surgery) (Adjunct Professor of Surgery)

  2. University of California, San Diego, 92037, La Jolla, California, USA

    Eugene F. Bernstein M.D., Ph.D. (Adjunct Professor of Surgery) (Adjunct Professor of Surgery)

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Carter, J.E. (1988). Chronic Ocular Ischemia and Carotid Vascular Disease. In: Bernstein, E.F. (eds) Amaurosis Fugax. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3776-1_10

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