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Published on: July 21, 2013
Double prepapillary arterial loops associated with superior branch macular artery occlusion
Vasumathy Vedantham1, Kim Ramasamy, P Namperumalsamy
1Retina-Vitreous Service, Aravind Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, 1 Anna Nagar, Madurai, India. drvasumathy@yahoo.com
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
|June 25, 2005
Abstract:
Prepapillary arterial loops are congenital vascular anomalies that have been noted to cause arterial occlusions. We report a case of superior branch macular artery occlusion in an eye with two independent prepapillary arterial loops, following a Valsalva-like mechanism.

