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Central retinal artery occlusion

Posted by Scott, Volunteer Mentor @IndianaScott, Nov 30, 2017

Good day all! Yesterday I lost 100%% of the sight in my right eye. After a day of testing, etc. I was diagnosed with central retinal artery occlusion. Simply put they say I had a stroke in my right eye. The ophthalmologist said "99% the loss is permanent". Seeing a retinal specialist next week.

I am curious if anyone here has this condition and if your loss was indeed permanent.

Thanks for any input!

Strength, courage, and peace to all.

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ellerchim | @ellerchim | May 25, 2023
In reply to @hahnco "I had an eye stroke during a TAVR procedure to replace my aortic valve. A chip..." + (show)
@hahnco

I had an eye stroke during a TAVR procedure to replace my aortic valve. A chip of calcium lodged in the intersection of two small arteries. The good news was it didn’t keep moving to the brain. I’ve lost sight in 25% of the lower left quadrant of my left eye. Likely forever!

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What an awful thing to happen during that operation. What are the odds of calcium going in there. Whatever I had in mine stopped just in time also before going to my brain. That’s why they sent me to the hospital. But it went down on its own. My son had a pig valve replacement for his aortic valve back in the early nineties.
How long has it been since you lost your sight in that eye. They say it can take several months. Mine happened on April 16th and it went from black to shards of light in a week then grey clouds on the top and bottom with limited central vision. Now the clouds are gone but very weird distorted vision. The eye strain is awful. Hoping for a slim chance of it getting better. Been a month and a half since this happened. Aware of it everyday as I am sure you are. In this day and age I would think there would something they could do.
Thank you so much for responding back and please let me know how you are doing with your sight and your valve replacement.

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vic83 | @vic83 | Sep 29 10:49pm
In reply to @dsh33782 "Wendy I think any of the top 10 eye research centers would be very good. You..." + (show)
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Wendy
I think any of the top 10 eye research centers would be very good. You may want to just choose the closest. The top ten were ranked from much larger group of eye research centers around the US.
Don

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What ae the top ten eye research centers ??? Have friend with recent eye stroke ...in her good eye unfortuantely. She has been practicaally blind in the other eye for many decades.

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