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Transient Cortical Blindness after Coronary Angiography [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of International Medical Research, 2009
Transient cortical blindness is rarely encountered after angiography of native coronary arteries or bypass grafts. This paper reports a case of transient cortical blindness that occurred 72 h after coronary angiography in a 56-year old patient.
exaly   +2 more sources

Cortical blindness

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, 1997
A 79-year-old woman with persistent cortical blindness caused by bilateral temporo-occipital infarctions was followed for 8 months. She had no light or visual motion perception. Our patient's visual imagery was intact, which was demonstrated when drawing elementary shapes; however, her drawing of objects was poor.
Dalman, J.E.   +2 more
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Cortical Blindness in Preeclampsia

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1980
ABSTRACTA 15‐year‐old primigravida with severe preeclampsia at term developed blindness. Following delivery by cesarean section, her visual acuity returned promptly. Computerized tomography demonstrated bilateral cerebral lesions in the occipital cortex, which resolved partially by five days and completely by seven months after delivery.
D A, Grimes   +2 more
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Is the Cortical Blindness Due to Diaschisis?

CLINICAL NUCLEAR MEDICINE, 1997
Cortical blindness is defined as a loss of vision that is caused by bilateral occipital lobe lesions. Many reports of patients with cortical blindness describe bilateral occipital lesions visualized on morphologic and functional imaging studies. The authors present the case of a patient who became cortically blind after a hemorrhagic lesion of the ...
Yilmaz, M   +4 more
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Cisplatin-associated cortical blindness

Gynecologic Oncology, 1981
Abstract Recently, J. J. Berman and M. P. Mann (Cancer 45, 764–766 (1980))documented transient cortical blindness and seizures in a 30-year-old man with testicular carcinoma during treatment with cisplatin in combination with vinblastine and bleomycin.
C H, Pippitt   +3 more
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Reversible cortical blindness in preeclampsia

American Journal of Ophthalmology, 2002
To report the clinical course and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in a 28-year-old woman with preeclampsia and reversible cortical blindness.Interventional case report.The patient presented at the 37th week of pregnancy with headache and hypertension. The next day, her visual acuity decreased to light perception in both eyes.
Diana V, Do   +2 more
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Transient cortical blindness in a child

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1987
A previously healthy 3-year-old girl with minor head injury developed a transient cortical blindness lasting approximately two hours. There were no objective findings on examination, but the child complained of loss of vision. She was evaluated with a computed tomography scan of the head, which was normal, and then was admitted for observation.
K, Hochstetler, R D, Beals
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Cortical blindness as a complication of eclampsia

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1984
Presented is a case of an eclamptic patient whose primary clinical presentation was cortical blindness. The patient was not known to be preeclamptic during her prenatal course, but she was lost to follow up one month prior to her presentation. Computed tomographic scan of the head was consistent with hypertensive encephalopathy.
H A, Liebowitz, P E, Hall
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Interferon-related cortical blindness

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, 1992
The term cortical blindness indicates loss of sight due to bilateral lesions in the occipital lobes. It is a rare but severe side effect produced by chemotherapeutic agents. Cortical blindness was diagnosed in a 75-year-old man who had been treated with alpha-interferon for metastatic renal-cell carcinoma. The absence of focal neurological signs and of
O, Merimsky   +4 more
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Cortical blindness

Postgraduate Medicine, 1980
The incidence and etiology of cortical blindness--a disorder that usually occurs after cerebrovascular accidents, cardiorespiratory arrest, severe head trauma, or bacterial meningitis--may be changing with the development of effective means of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as three cases discussed here show.
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