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Year : 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 11  |  Page : 2497-2499

Prepapillary vascular loop – A rare cause of vitreous hemorrhage


Department of Ophthalmology, ABVIMS and Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi, India

Date of Submission23-Feb-2020
Date of Acceptance26-Jun-2020
Date of Web Publication26-Oct-2020

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Deepa Sharma
SMO, Department of Ophthalmology, ABVIMS and Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi - 110 001
India
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Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_382_20

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  Abstract 


Keywords: Pars plana vitrectomy, prepapillary loop, vitreous hemorrhage


How to cite this article:
Ish S, Sharma D, Pathak A, Verma R, Garkoti H, Kumari S. Prepapillary vascular loop – A rare cause of vitreous hemorrhage. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:2497-9

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Ish S, Sharma D, Pathak A, Verma R, Garkoti H, Kumari S. Prepapillary vascular loop – A rare cause of vitreous hemorrhage. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 28];68:2497-9. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2020/68/11/2497/299084



A 55-year-old male presented with sudden, painless diminution of vision in his left eye since 15 days. The best-corrected visual acuity was finger counting close to face with brown nuclear cataract. The Ultrasound B scan was suggestive of vitreous hemorrhage (VH) with posterior vitreous detachment. While performing combined phacoemulsification with 25-gauge pars-plana vitrectomy, inadvertently, there was a massive bleed from the stump at disc which could not be controlled with cautery or fluid/air exchange. After 1 week, a vitreous lavage was done. Fundus showed a double-helical vascular loop projecting into the vitreous cavity at the center of the optic disc suggestive of a prepapillary vascular loop [Figure 1] and [Figure 2]. Upon Fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA), there was filling of the vascular loop in the late phase with delayed filling of the inferior hemiretinal vessels [Figure 3] and [Figure 4], suggestive of the arterial origin of the loop with no ischemic insult. Optical coherence tomography showed an elevated lesion over the disc with a central lumen suggesting an arterial connection [Figure 5].
Figure 1: Double-helical vascular loop with arterial configuration arising from the optic nerve head

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Figure 2: Magnified red-free fundus photo showing prepapillary loop

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Figure 3: FFA of left eye showing delayed filling of inferior hemiretinal vessels

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Figure 4: FFA of left eye showing filling of vasular loop and inferior hemiretinal vessels in the late phase with no ischemic area

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Figure 5: OCT from the prepapillary area showing elevated lesion with a central lumen and ERM in the temporal area

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The incidence of prepapillary loop is approximately 0.01%.[1] They occur when evolving retinal vessels grow into a vitreous cavity within the Cloquet's canal instead of coursing into the retina. The vessel twists and turns and may acquire a loop-like structure with a glial veil.[2] They are usually unilateral, congenital, and benign in nature.[3] The visual complaints are branch retinal artery occlusion, hyphema, vitreous hemorrhage, and amaurosis fugax.[4] FFA studies have demonstrated that arterial prepapillary loops are more common than venous.[5]

Prepapillary loops must be kept in mind while dealing with massive and uncontrolled vitreous hemorrhage, like our case, which required a two-time surgical intervention.

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Conflicts of interest

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1.
Wygnanski-Jaffe T, Desatnik H, Treister G, Moisseiev J. Acquired prepapillary vascular loops. Arch Ophthalmol 1997;115:1329-30.  Back to cited text no. 1
    
2.
Degenhart W, Brown GC, Augsburger JJ, Magargal L. Prepapillary vascular loops. Ophthalmology 1981;88:1126-31.  Back to cited text no. 2
    
3.
Hsieh YT, Yang CM. The clinical study of congenital looped/coiled peripapillary retinal vessels. Eye (Lond) 2005;19:906-9.  Back to cited text no. 3
    
4.
Singh R, Fujinami K, Moore AT. Branch retinal artery occlusion secondary to prepapillary arterial loop. Retin Cases Brief Rep 2014;8:124-6.  Back to cited text no. 4
    
5.
Teramoto S, Ohno-Matsui K, Tokoro T, Ohno S. Bilateral large peripapillary venous and arterial loops. Jpn J Ophthalmol 1999;43:422-5.  Back to cited text no. 5
    


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  [Figure 1], [Figure 2], [Figure 3], [Figure 4], [Figure 5]



 

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