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Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is one of the major causes for monocular blindness in the elderly. The diagnosis is easily achievable by means of clinical signs and symptoms and ophthalmoscopy. Spontaneous improvement is a rare event and treatments using vasoactive drugs are poorly effective. Up to now fibrinolysis seems to be the only rational treatment for CRAO. In 1992 Schmidt and colleagues [1] reported on successful treatments of CRAO employing superselective microcatheter techniques with local application of urokinase into the ophthalmic artery. The most surprising result was the observation that vision may recover even more than 6 h after retinal stroke.
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Freitag, HJ., Zeumer, H., Knospe, V. (1993). Acute Central Retinal Artery Occlusion and the Role of Thrombolysis. In: del Zoppo, G.J., Mori, E., Hacke, W. (eds) Thrombolytic Therapy in Acute Ischemic Stroke II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78061-5_15
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