Occlusion of a branch of the central retinal artery by a corpus alienum as a rare complication of the carotid arteriography.

This report concerns a 43-year-old female patient, complaining of a film over the eye after carotid arteriography. Ophthalmoscopical examination showed an occlusion of a branch of the central retinal artery just at the nasal border of the optic disc with a slight blurring at the edge of the papilla in this area. Retinal edema was found in the supporting area of the arteria temporalis inferior and the visual field shows, accordingly, a lost sector. Endogenous embolism is discussed here in contrast to an exogenous one as well as its causes.