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Arch Ophthalmol. 2006;124:746-747.

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Sickle cell retinopathy is caused by retinal ischemia secondary to the sickling of red blood cells in retinal arterioles, which supply nutrients to the ganglion cell layer, inner nuclear layer, and Muellerian glia of the retina. Macular infarction due to sickle cell disease has been documented using fluorescein angiography, electroretinography, and histopathologic examination.^1-3 However, optical coherence tomography (OCT) of sickle cell retinopathy has, to our knowledge, never previously been reported. We report a case of macular atrophy secondary to retinal arteriolar occlusion in a patient with sickle cell disease, documented by standard-resolution OCT and ultra-high-resolution OCT, a new imaging technology capable of 2- to 3-µm resolution in the axial direction⁴ compared with 10 µm with standard-resolution OCT.⁵

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A 26-year-old man with sickle cell disease (HbSS) went to the emergency department during an acute sickle cell crisis and was admitted to the medical intensive care unit with myocardial infarction, acute renal . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Andre J. Witkin, BS; Adam H. Rogers, MD; Tony H. Ko, MS; James G. Fujimoto, PhD; Joel S. Schuman, MD; Jay S. Duker, MD

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