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A Rare Hydrocephalus Complication: Cortical Blindness [PDF]

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2015
Cortical blindness related to bilateral occipital lobe infarction is an extremely rare complication of hydrocephalus. Compression of the posterior cerebral artery, secondary to tentorial herniation, is the cause of occipital infarction ...
Emre Ünal, Rahşan Göçmen, Ayşe İlksen Işıkay, Özlem Tekşam   +3 more
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Cortical blindness during cyclosporin treatment

, 1994
A 40-year-old man developed cortical blindness during cyclosporin treatment shortly after an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for chronic myeloid leukaemia.
Vlasveld, L. T., Dellemijn, P. L.I., Joosse, M. V., Van Den Bent, M. J.; id_orcid, Cornelissen, J. J.   +4 more
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REVERSIBLE CORTICAL BLINDNESS FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL REPAIR OF TWO STAB WOUNDS IN THE HEART

Libyan Journal of Medicine, 2008
This report describes a case of cortical blindness that followed successful surgical repair of two stab wounds in the heart in a 29-year old Libyan man.
Zaiton A, Abdul Razeq M, Saad K, El Snaini F, El Gatit A   +4 more
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Cortical Blindness [PDF]

, 2013
When bilateral retrochiasmal lesions from the beginning of the lateral geniculate body to the occipital cortex are present, there is a cortical ...
Kozak, Hasan Huseyin, Uca, Ali Ulvi
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Hepatic Encephalopathy Induced Transient Cortical Blindness

Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2022
Hepatic encephalopathy describes a spectrum of potentially reversible neuropsychiatric abnormalities seen in a patient with severe liver dysfunction with porto-systemic shunting.
Shweta Pokhrel, Pramesh Sunder Shrestha, Rahul Pathak, Suju Bhattarai, Bipin Karki, Shachi Paudel   +5 more
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CORTICAL BLINDNESS DUE TO BILATERAL STROKES – A CASE REPORT OF ANTON SYNDROME [PDF]

Journal of IMAB, 2023
Background: Blindness (anopia) is a functional loss of vision, which could be due either to ophthalmological or neurological conditions. Blindness may be congenital or acquired. The main causes of blindness in adults are cataracts, uncorrected ametropia (
Igor Mladenovski, Milan Mladenovski, Plamen Stoev, Stanislava Vasilkova, Maya Danovska   +4 more
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Risk Factors of Transient Cortical Blindness After Cerebral Angiography: A Multicenter Study

Frontiers in Neurology, 2019
Background: Although transient cortical blindness is a rare complication following cerebral angiography, identification of risk factors for the development of transient cortical blindness after cerebral angiography is an important clinical issue.Material
Miao Li, Huaxin Liang, Chao Liu, Hongtao Liu, Yang Zheng, Wanchao Shi, Jie Wang   +6 more
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Transient cortical blindness secondary to hepatic encephalopathy in a pediatric patient: A case report and literature review

Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021
Cortical blindness, also known as cerebral visual impairment, may occur in pediatric patients. Hepatic encephalopathy is a rare cause of cortical blindness in children.
Ahmad Sukari Ain-Nasyrah, Norizan Abdul Majid, Ismail Shatriah   +2 more
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Neural correlates of motion-induced blindness in the human brain [PDF]

, 2010
Motion-induced blindness (MIB) is a visual phenomenon in which highly salient visual targets spontaneously disappear from visual awareness (and subsequently reappear) when superimposed on a moving background of distracters. Such fluctuations in awareness
Rees, G., Marieke L. Schölvinck, M. Scholvinck, Schölvinck, M.L., Geraint Rees, G. Rees   +5 more
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Ecological determinants of blindness in Nigeria: the Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey. [PDF]

, 2011
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and causes of visual loss in different ecological zones across Nigeria. METHODS: A population-based survey using multi-stage, stratified, cluster random sampling with probability proportional to size comprising a ...
Abubakar, Tafida, Rabiu, MM, Kyari, Fatima, Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Study Group, Gudlavalleti, Murthy VS, Gilbert, CE, Sivasubramaniam, Selvaraj, Gudlavalleti, Murthy V S, Gilbert, C E, Rabiu, M M   +9 more
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