Ophthalmic Rete Mirabile: The First Angiographic Documentation of Embryonic Ophthalmic Collaterals in a Patient with Moyamoya Disease A Case Report

摘要

Plexiform vascular networks of the rete mirabile in humans are rare but can be observed in some vertebrates such as cobaye, cat, cow and sheep. Each set of embryonic arteries can be a potential source of these vascular networks which reconstitute the distal flows in segmental agenesis of internal carotid or vertebral arteries especially in patients with PHACE (posterior fossa malformation of the brain, facial heman-giomas, arterial anomalies, cardiac anomalies with coarctation of aorta, and eye abnormalities) syndrome. Ophthalmic rete mirabile has been found in some mammals such as camel, deer and avion species of pigeon, Hawaiian seabirds and deep-water fish of the cod other than human.