Blindness, Cortical - Etiology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The prevalence of perioperative visual loss in the United States: a 10-year study from 1996 to 2005 of spinal, orthopedic, cardiac, and general surgery.

25 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Perioperative visual loss (POVL) accompanying nonocular surgery is a rare and potentially devastating complication but its frequency in commonly performed inpatient surgery is not well defined. We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to ... Read more...

[Postoperative visual disturbances after non-ophthalmic surgery]

30 Jul 2009 Visual disturbance including visual loss is a rare but devastating complication after non-ophthalmic surgery. Reported incidence of visual disturbances ranged from 0.028 to 0.2% after spine surgery and from 0.0009 to 25.6% after cardiac surgery. ... Read more...

Transient cortical blindness after coronary angiography.

29 Jun 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. This ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Blindness, Cortical - Etiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The prevalence of perioperative visual loss in the United States: a 10-year study from 1996 to 2005 of spinal, orthopedic, cardiac, and general surgery. 25 Aug 2009
• [Postoperative visual disturbances after non-ophthalmic surgery] 30 Jul 2009
• Sudden visual loss in a patient with microscopic polyangiitis. 7 Jul 2009
• Transient cortical blindness after coronary angiography. 29 Jun 2009
• Cerebral blindness after scorpion sting. 30 May 2009
• Anton syndrome, with vivid visual hallucinations, associated with radiation induced leucoencephalopathy. 24 Mar 2009
• Pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy: normal outcome in a patient with late diagnosis after prolonged status epilepticus causing cortical blindness. 15 Mar 2009
• [Postpartum blindness following postdural puncture headache] 30 Jan 2009
• Cerebral blindness. 30 Dec 2008
• An atypical presentation of anton syndrome in a patient with preserved cognition despite multiple cerebral infarcts: a case report. 30 Dec 2008
• Cortical blindness due to sagittal sinus thrombosis in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. 3 Nov 2008
• An uncommon complication after a common procedure. 29 Sep 2008
• Progressive cognitive decline and myoclonus in a young woman: clinicopathological conference at the Edinburgh Advanced Neurology Course, 2007. Variant CJD. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. 29 Sep 2008
• Medical image. Anton's syndrome secondary to cerebral vasculitis. 3 Sep 2008
• [Comments from the editor (Clin Neurol 48: 351-354, 2008): case of transient cortical blindness due to thrombosis of the transverse sinus] 30 Aug 2008
• [Computed tomography findings of the transverse sinus thrombi] 30 Aug 2008
• Postpartum cortical blindness. 30 Aug 2008
• Occipital lobe injury and cortical visual outcomes after neonatal hypoglycemia. 30 Aug 2008
• Cortical visual loss consequent to brain metastases from an endometrial carcinoma. 30 Jul 2008
• Ophthalmic manifestations of 107 cases with hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count syndrome. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Blindness, Cortical'

Definition: Total loss of vision in all or part of the visual field due to bilateral OCCIPITAL LOBE (i.e., VISUAL CORTEX) damage or dysfunction. Anton syndrome is characterized by the psychic denial of true, organic cortical blindness. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p460)

Descriptor UI: D019575

Alternative terms: Blindness, Cortical; Cortical Blindness; Blindness, Cortical, Post-Ictal; Blindness, Cortical, Transient; Anton Syndrome; Anton Syndromes; Syndrome, Anton; Syndromes, Anton; Psychic Denial of Blindness;

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Tree Number: C10.597.751.941.162.250; C11.966.075.250; C23.888.592.763.941.162.250;

History Note: 1998