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Unilateral vascular abnormality: A case of peripheral retinal arteriolar tortuosity associated with a prepapillary
Parth S Patel1, Mansoor Mughal1,2, Harold M Wheatley1,2
1Department of Ophthalmology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Purpose:
To report a case of unilateral prepapillary vascular loop along with peripheral third order retinal arteriolar tortuosity in the same eye, and to discuss potential diagnostic considerations.
Observations:
Color fundus pictures and wide-angle fluorescein angiography (FA) demonstrated a pre-papillary vascular loop and a region of retinal arteriolar tortuosity in third order arterioles superotemporally in the left eye. The examination and ancillary testing on the right eye were normal.
Conclusion And Importance:
The vascular abnormality in this case does not fit a pattern present in other disease states both hereditary or acquired. The patient's immediate family do not demonstrate a similar abnormality and the patient remains visually asymptomatic upon one-year follow-up.
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