Atheromatous Plaques of the Retinal Blood Vessels

Maculo-papillary branch retinal artery occlusions following the Wada test

“…They mainly occur in late severe atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, arteritis, dysproteinemia, collagen vascular disease, and malignant hypertension [1,2,4] embolism may be septic emboli as seen in subacute bacterial endocarditis, metastatic carcinoma, myxomas, toxoplasmosis, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome or deficiency of protein S [1,6,9,11,13]. Most neurologic complications of cerebral angiography have been described in the subgroup of older patients presenting with a history of stroke, transient ischemic attack, or asymptomatic bruit, i.e.…”