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The records of 151 patients who developed retinal arterial obstruction were reviewed to evaluate the survival prognosis of these patients. Survival rates were calculated to expected rates of an age- and sex-matched control group of patients without retinal arterial obstruction. The presence of visible embolus and a branch retinal artery occlusion were found to be significant factors for worse survival prognosis (P=0.0001 andP= 0.001, respectively). The survival rate of the entire group of 151 patients with retinal artery occlusion was not significantly different from that of the age- and sex-matched group (P=0.29). Among the patients evaluated with continuous-wave Doppler sonography, the presence or the absence of the atheromatous carotid disease did not significantly affect the survival.
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De Potter, P., Zografos, L. Survival prognosis of patients with retinal artery occlusion and associated carotid artery disease. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 231, 212–216 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00918843
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