The presence of retinal ischemic perivascular lesions may signal that a patient also has CVD, according to data published in EClinicalMedicine.
“Identifying biomarkers of subclinical ischemia can help identify patients with occult cardiovascular disease. Individuals with cardiovascular disease are prone to developing retinal vascular occlusions,” Christopher P. Long, MD, resident at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues wrote. “On spectral domain OCT, small retinal infarctions manifest in the acute phase as a hyperreective perivenular band at the level of
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