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TRANSIENT BILATERAL BLINDNESS IN RELATION TO SUBARACHNOID HAEMORRHAGE CAUSED BY SPASTIC ISCHAEMIC CHANGES IN RETINA AND OPTIC NERVE
Author(s) -
THYGESEN JOHN,
ROSENØRN JARL
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1982.tb08388.x
Subject(s) - medicine , optic nerve , amaurosis , amaurosis fugax , retina , blindness , ophthalmology , optic chiasma , spastic , cardiology , surgery , carotid arteries , neuroscience , optometry , psychology , cerebral palsy , psychiatry
A case of bilateral transient ischaemic blindness (amaurosis) due to ischaemic changes in the retina, the optic nerve and chiasma caused by severe cerebral arterial spasms after subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) originating from a ruptured saccular aneurysm (from the anterior cerebral artery) is presented. To our knowledge this pathogenesis for transient blindness has never been described before.