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Gurinder Singh, MD
Los Angeles, Calif

Arch Ophthalmol. 1990;108(4):477.

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To the Editor.

—In the March 1989 issue of the ARCHIVES, Pe'er et al¹ reported various fundus findings secondary to retinal emboli 1 day following cardiac valve surgery in 10 of 81 patients. They did not mention the number of eyes involved. Even then, this alarmingly high number (12%) suggests the need for more extensive preoperative and postoperative ocular workup to prevent and treat these complications that will go undetected otherwise. This study reveals the fact that retinal emboli following cardiac surgery are underdiagnosed, underreported, or both.

Although since the late 1970s only one report² addressing the subject of perioperative retinal emboli after open heart surgery has been published, cases of retinal emboli following cardiac catheterization³ and therapeutic external carotid embolization⁴ have been reported in the 1980s. My colleague and I reported a case of central retinal artery embolization by cardiac catheter fragment.³ Our patient, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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