Accuracy of visible retinal emboli for the detection of cardioembolic lesions requiring anticoagulation or cardiac surgery

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 655-658

  Sharma, Sanjay ^a   Brown, Gary C ^b   Cruess, Alan F ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMBOLISM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031749841     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.82.6.655     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Savino PJ, Glaser JS, Cassady J. Retinal stroke: is the patient at risk? Arch Ophthalmol 1977;95:1185-9.
2. Graham EM. The investigation of patients with retinal vascular occlusion. Eye 1990;4:464-8.
3. Wilson LA, Warlow CP, Russel RWR. Cardiovascular disease in patients with retinal arterial occlusion. Lancet 1979;10:292-4.
4. Appen RE, Wray SH, Cogan DG. Central retinal artery occlusion. Am J Ophthalmol 1975;79:374-81.
5. Brown GC, Magargal LE. Central retinal artery obstruction and visual acuity. Ophthalmology 1982;89:14-19.
6. Sybers HD, Boake WC. Coronary and retinal embolism from a left atrial myxoma. Arch Pathol 1971;91:179-82.
7. Holley KE, Bahn RC, McGoon DC, et al. Calcific embolization associated with valvotomy for calcific aortic stenosis. Circulation 1963;27:175-81.
8. Bucci FA, Dimitsopulos TM, Krohel GB. Branch retinal artery occlusion secondary to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Br J Ophthalmol 1989;73:309-10.
9. Zimmerman LE. Embolism of the central retinal artery - secondary to myocardial infarction with mural thrombus. Arch Ophthalmol 1965;73:822-6.
10. Kresca LJ, Goldberg MF, Jampol LM. Talc emboli and retinal neovascularization in a drug user. Am J Ophthalmol 1979;87:334-9.
11. Ide CH, Almond CH, Hart WM, et al. Hematogenous dissemination of microemboli. Eye findings in a patient with Starr-Edwards aortic prosthesis. Arch Ophthalmol 1971;85: 614-17.
12. Wilson LA, Keeling PWN, Malcolm AD, et al Visual complications of mitral leaflet prolapse. BMJ 1977;9:86-8.
13. Woldoff HS, Gerber M, Desser KB, et al. Retinal vascular lesions in two patients with prolapsed mitral valve leaflets. Am J Ophthalmol 1975;79:382-5.
14. Sackett DL, Rennie D. The science of the art of the clinical examination. JAMA 1992;267:2650-2.
15. Sackett DL, Haynes RB, Guyatt GH, et al. Clinical epidemiology: a basic science for clinical medicine. 2nd ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991:119-39.
16. Sharma S, Cruess AF, Pater J, et al. Can different types of retinal emboli be reliably differentiated from one another? Can J Ophthalmol (in press).
17. Simel DL, Samsa GP, Matchar DB. Likelihood ratios with confidence: sample size estimation for diagnostic test studies. J Clin Epidemiol 1991;44:763-70.
18. O'Donnell BA, Mitchell P. The clinical features and associations of retinal emboli. Aust J Ophthalmol 1992;20:11-7.
19. Younge BR. The significance of retinal emboli. J Clin Neuro-Ophthalmol 1989;9:190-4.
20. Sharma S, Naqvi A, Sharma SM, et al. Transthoracic echocardiographic findings in patients with acute retinal arterial obstruction: a retrospective review. Arch Ophthalmol 1996;114:1189-92.
21. Wiznia RA, Pearson WN. Use of transesophageal echocardiography for detection of a likely source of embolization to the central retinal artery. Am J Ophthalmol 1991;111:104-5.