Blindness, Cortical
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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'

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
• Paradoxical robust visual evoked potentials in young patients with cortical blindness. 21 Jun 2009
• Comorbidities in cerebral palsy and their relationship to neurologic subtype and GMFCS level. 14 Jun 2009
• Cerebral blindness after scorpion sting. 30 May 2009
• Surgical considerations in the management of falcotentorial meningiomas: advantages of the bilateral occipital transtentorial/transfalcine craniotomy for large tumors. 29 Apr 2009
• Neurology: Impaired vision in a dog. 29 Apr 2009
• Evaluation of possible prognostic factors of fulminant acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) on magnetic resonance imaging with fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and diffusion-weighted imaging. 30 Mar 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
• [Recurrent cortical blindness after LSD-intake] 14 Feb 2009
• [Postpartum blindness following postdural puncture headache] 30 Jan 2009
• Microstimulation of visual cortex to restore vision. 30 Dec 2008
• 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
• A 3.1-Mb microdeletion of 3p21.31 associated with cortical blindness, cleft lip, CNS abnormalities, and developmental delay. 11 Dec 2008
• Koniocellular projections and hand-assisted blindsight. 29 Nov 2008
• A hand in the blindsight paradox: a subcortical pathway? 29 Nov 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