Ocular Ischemic Syndrome as a Clue for Carotid Artery Stenosis

Abstract

In current medical practice, all symptoms of a patient could reveal a systemic involvement of an inflammatory condition which primary presentation might not be vivid enough for diagnosis of the original disease. In this case report, a painful eye of a patient lead us to diagnose stenosis of carotid artery and endovascular therapy consequently subsided patient visual acuity and prevented future devastating results.