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NOBLE J. DAVID, MD; EDWARD W. C. NORTON, MD; J DONALD GASS, MD; ROBERT SEXTON, MD

Arch Neurol. 1966;14(3):281-287.

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THE RETINAL circulation has attracted the attention of cerebrovascular physiologists and neurologists as well as ophthalmologists because of the unique opportunity it affords for direct observation of a segment of the cerebral vasculature, including branches of a small artery, arterioles, capillaries, and veins. Such techniques as ophthalmodynamometry¹ and arm-to-retina fluorescein appearance time² utilize the visibility of the retinal arteries in providing evidence of occlusive disease in the carotid trunk which supplies them before it divides to become the anterior circulation of the cerebral hemisphere.

Fluorescein fundus photography now offers a method for studying the dynamics of the retinal circulation. This technique, first described by Novotny and Alvis,³ has been employed chiefly to reveal fine details of retinal vascular anatomy⁴ and to demonstrate changes in the permeability of retinal vessels.⁵ Heretofore, the method has been seriously limited by a delay of five to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CORAL GABLES, FLA

From the departments of ophthalmology and neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine and the divisions of neurology and ophthalmology, Veterans Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Fla.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 24, 1965; accepted Dec 3.

Reprint requests to Neurology Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Fla 33134 (Dr. David).

A Wratten No. 58 filter was used at the camera film gate until recently but has been found to transmit an undesirable amount of nonfluorescent blue light.

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