What is Retinal Vascular Disease?

Retinal Vasculitis
Visualization of mild retinal vasculitis, an uncommon finding in sympathetic ophthalmia. (A) Fluorescein angiogram of a sympathetic ophthalmia retina shows mild vascular leakage revealing retinal vasculitis (arrows). (B) Histopathology confirms retinal vasculitis with lymphocytes (arrows) alongside the vessel wall. Hematoxylin & eosin; original magnification, ×400. Sympathetic ophthalmia: to the twenty-first century and beyond. Chu XK, Chan CC - Journal of ophthalmic inflammation and infection (2013). Not Altered. CC.

Retinal vascular disease is a clinical condition with abnormal vasculatures of the retina.

Examples of retinal vascular diseases include: 

  • Retinopathy of prematurity
  • Retrolental fibroplasia
  • Sickle retinopathy
  • Radiation vasculitis
  • Retinal vasculitis
  • Retinal artery occlusion
  • Retinal vein occlusion