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We hypothesized that imaging blood flow velocity waveforms in the retinal arterioles and venules simultaneously would reveal specific characteristics of an arteriovenous (AV) connection.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study was an observational case series, with a retrospective case\u2013control analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Five patients with a CCF underwent measurement of ocular blood flow using laser speckle flowgraphy. The blood flow was compared retrospectively between a control group of healthy subjects (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 32) and patients with an elevated intraocular pressure or venous outflow impairment without an AV fistula (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 40). The outcomes were derived from the arteriole and venule blood flow velocity waveforms, including an A\u2013V phase delay and flow pulsatility.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The presence of an active CCF was associated with an increased delay in the peak velocity measured in the retinal venule (10.7% \u00b1 2.2% of the cardiac cycle duration) compared with unaffected fellow eyes (1.8% \u00b1 0.2%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.05) or control eyes of normal subjects (2.7% \u00b1 0.3%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.02). This delay disappeared after fistula thrombosis and was not present in eyes with a central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), glaucoma, non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), or papilledema. The venule blood flow velocity decreased during systole (and in some cases momentarily stopped), leading to a delayed pulse with a greater amplitude in the venules than in fellow eyes and normal controls after normalizing to the arteriole amplitude (1.71 \u00b1 0.3 vs 0.54 \u00b1 0.03 vs 0.59 \u00b1 0.02; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 8.0E-12). This specific AV delay could also be identified in a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO; SPECTRALIS\u00ae) video.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Laser speckle flowgraphy reveals dynamic retinal vascular changes in eyes affected by a CCF, which are not present in healthy controls or patients with other eye conditions, and which reverses with treatment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fopht.2023.1301410","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,11]],"date-time":"2023-12-11T04:31:12Z","timestamp":1702269072000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Retinal arterial\u2013venous pulse delay: a new specific marker for a carotid\u2013cavernous fistula"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Edward F.","family":"Linton","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Thomas 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