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Case Reports
. 2017 Oct;65(10):1033-1035.
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_42_17.

Amalric sign: An augur of ophthalmic artery occlusion

Prathibha Hande  1 , Babi Sinha  1 , Shivani Nayak  1 , Srilakshmi Srinivasan  1 , Jyothi Shetty  1
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Amalric sign: An augur of ophthalmic artery occlusion

Prathibha Hande et al. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2017 Oct.

Abstract

A 75-year-old man presented to us with sudden onset of profound vision loss in his right eye and was identified as suffering from an ophthalmic artery occlusion. Apart from the retinal whitening and box-carring of the retinal arteries, there were characteristic triangular patches of retinal whitening in the midperipheral temporal fundus indicating a previous lateral posterior choroidal artery occlusion. The patient was a chronic smoker and had dyslipidemia. The carotid Doppler study showed complete occlusion of the internal carotid artery. The presence of these triangular patches of retinal whitening or amalric sign can therefore herald a more proximal vessel occlusion. Hence such patients require evaluation on an emergency basis. The characteristic features of the patches on fluorescein angiography and indocyanine green angiography are discussed here.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Fundus picture of the right eye showing box-carring of the retinal arteries, banking of the veins, and retinal whitening of the posterior pole with few cotton wool spots
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Figure 2
Inferior quadrant of the fundus showing triangular patches of retinal whitening
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Figure 3
Prominent triangular patches of retinal whitening with base toward the equator and pointing toward posterior pole
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Figure 4
Fluorescein angiography image at 2 min highlighting the hyperfluorescent triangular lesions. Note the delayed filling of the cilioretinal artery and the proximal part of the central retinal artery
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Figure 5
Late frames showing increased hyperfluorescence and leakage at the triangular patches
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Figure 6
The fluorescein angiography and the indocyanine green images taken simultaneously. Note the absence of these patches on the indocyanine green image
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Figure 7
Optical coherence tomography image of the right eye macula showing hyperreflective inner retinal layers and the characteristic band of hyporeflectivity
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