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Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Hollenhorst plaque in Branch Retinal Artery Occlusion (BRAO)

Hollenhorst plaque in Branch Retinal Artery Occlusion (BRAO)

Category(ies): Retina, Vitreous
Contributor: Elizabeth Gauger, MD
Photographer: Toni Venckus, CRA

fundus BRAO with Hollenhorst plaques
BRAO left eye. Two Hollenhorst plaques can be visualized: one in the first bifurcation of the central retinal artery and another along the inferotemporal arcade arteriorle at a branch point.
angiopgraphy
Note the macular whitening indicating macular ischemia.