PURPOSE: To investigate the clinical manifestations and visual prognosis of retinal artery
occlusion resulting from cosmetic facial filler injections. DESIGN: Retrospective,
noncomparative case series. METHODS: Setting. Institutional. Study Population. Twelve
consecutive patients with retinal artery occlusion caused by cosmetic facial filler injections.
Main Outcome Measures. Filler materials, injection sites, best-corrected visual acuities,
fundus fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography findings, and associated …

WE READ WITH INTEREST THE RECENT ARTICLE BY PARK and associates titled
''Iatrogenic Retinal Artery Occlusion Caused by Cosmetic Facial Filler Injections.''1 The
authors are to be commended for reporting the results of a retrospective noncomparative
case series to evaluate the clinical manifestation and visual prognosis of retinal artery
occlusion resulting from cosmetic facial filler injections. Herein, we discuss some key points
about this serious eye injury that recently have heightened awareness. 2 In their article, Park …