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Central retinal artery: The blood vessel that carries blood into the eye and supplies nutrition to the retina.
The counterpart to the central retinal artery is the central retinal vein, the vessel that carries blood away from the retina.
In 1859, Van Graefe first described central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) as an embolic event to the central retinal artery in a patient with endocarditis.
Central retinal artery occlusion; Branch retinal artery occlusion; CRAO; BRAO
The circulation to the retina enters the eye through the central retinal artery. When a patient develops a sudden occlusion of the central retinal artery, the vision ...
Infectious arthritis, traumatic arthritis, osteoarthritis, RA, and secondary degenerative arthritis can affect the TMJ. Infectious arthritis: Infection of the TMJ ...
Fraser S, Siriwardena D. Interventions for acute non-arteritic central retinal artery occlusion. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2002;CD001989. . Hayreh SS, Kolder ...