About the Authors

Brian Mac Grory

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

brian.macgrory@duke.edu

Affiliations Departments of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, ORBIT Interdisciplinary Hub, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Cécile Preterre

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology, CHU de Nantes - Laennec Nantes, France

Pierre Lebranchu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology, CHU de Nantes - Laennec Nantes, France

Stephen James Ryan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Øystein Kalsnes Jørstad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Oslo University Hospital, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Morten Carstens Moe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Oslo University Hospital, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Johannes Tünnerhoff

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology & Stroke, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Martin S. Spitzer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Carsten Grohmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Oana M. Dumitrascu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Valérie Biousse

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America, Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Benoit Guillon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ORBIT Interdisciplinary Hub, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Anne Hege Aamodt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Department of Neuroscience and Movement Science, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Institute of Population Health, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Sven Poli

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurology & Stroke, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Matthew Schrag

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

The Central Retinal ArterY OcclusioN (CRAYON) Collaborators

Competing Interests

BMG is supported by the National Institutes of Health (K23HL161426, R03HL178686, and UG3NS138219), the American Heart Association (23MRFSCD1077188 & 25GLP1450119), Duke Bass Connections, the Duke Office of Physician-Scientist Development, and the Duke University Office of the Provost. CP has nothing to disclose. PL received speakers’ honoraria/consulting fees from Santhera, Novartis, Lissac-Optic2000, Alexion, and Amgen. SJR has nothing to disclose. ØKJ: Allergan (speaker, consultant), Bayer (speaker, consultant), Chiesi Farmaceutici (speaker), Roche (consultant), and SJJ Solutions (speaker, consultant, and royalties). MCM Allergan (consultant), Bayer (speaker, consultant), Roche (speaker, consultant), Apellis (consultant), Novartis (consultant) and SJJ Solutions (consultant, and royalties). JT has nothing to disclose. MSS received research support from Bayer, Fielmann, Topcon, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation, the Danger Foundation, the Christiansen Foundation and the Claire-Jung Foundation as well as speakers’ honoraria/consulting fees from Abbvie, Alcon, Apellis, Astellas, Atheneum, Bayer, Heexal, Nordic Pharma, Novartis, Roche, SHS, Stada, and TelemedC. CG has nothing to disclose. OMD is supported by the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS14-052688). VB is a consultant for GenSight Biologics and Topcon Medical and is supported in part by the National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute core grant P30-EY06360 (Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine) and by a departmental grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (New York, NY). BG has nothing to disclose. AHA has received honoraria for advice or lecturing from BMS/Pfizer, Abbvie, Teva, Novartis, Lilly, Lundbeck and Teva and research grants from the Norwegian Program for Clinical Therapy Research in the specialist health service (Klinbeforsk), the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority, EU, The Norwegian Health Association, Odd Fellow, BMS, Pfizer, and Boehringer-Ingelheim. SP received research support from BMS/Pfizer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo, European Union, German Federal Joint Committee Innovation Fund, and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Helena Laboratories and Werfen as well as speakers’ honoraria/consulting fees from Alexion, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, BMS/Pfizer, Daiichi Sankyo, Portola, and Werfen. MS is supported by the National Institutes of Health (R56AG074279, K76AG060001, R01AG078803 and R21AG070859). The above mentioned commercial affiliations do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and methods.