Response by Mac Grory et  al. to Letter regarding “Structural and Functional Imaging of the Retina in Central Retinal Artery Occlusion – Current Approaches and Future Directions”

We wish to thank Drs. Tuuminen, Achiron and Kanclerz for the interest in our paper and for the opportunity to address several entrenched misconceptions about the treatment of central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO). In 2015, Schrag et  al.1 published a subject level meta-analysis concerning visual outcomes in patients with CRAO who were untreated, treated with thrombolysis or treated with a variety of conservative therapies (anterior chamber paracentesis, ocular massage and/or hemodilution). An important innovation in this work was the use of a simple, reproducible definition of visual recovery as the attainment of a final visual acuity of ≥20/100 in the affected eye.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research