Cortical blindness in a child with acute glomerulonephritis

The association between hypertensive encephalopathy and cortical blindness in children with acute glomerulonephritis is extremely rare. We report the case of a 9-year old girl who presented with headache, seizures, altered sensorium, hematuria, and transient cortical blindness as a complication of h...

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Autores principales: Kaarthigeyan, K., Vijayalakshmi, A. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22279342
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.86408
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description The association between hypertensive encephalopathy and cortical blindness in children with acute glomerulonephritis is extremely rare. We report the case of a 9-year old girl who presented with headache, seizures, altered sensorium, hematuria, and transient cortical blindness as a complication of hypertensive encephalopathy which showed complete reversal following normalization of blood pressure and an underlying post-infectious acute glomerulonephritis was revealed.
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spelling pubmed-32630622012-01-25 Cortical blindness in a child with acute glomerulonephritis Kaarthigeyan, K. Vijayalakshmi, A. M. Indian J Nephrol Case Report The association between hypertensive encephalopathy and cortical blindness in children with acute glomerulonephritis is extremely rare. We report the case of a 9-year old girl who presented with headache, seizures, altered sensorium, hematuria, and transient cortical blindness as a complication of hypertensive encephalopathy which showed complete reversal following normalization of blood pressure and an underlying post-infectious acute glomerulonephritis was revealed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3263062/ /pubmed/22279342 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.86408 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nephrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Cortical blindness in a child with acute glomerulonephritis
title_full Cortical blindness in a child with acute glomerulonephritis
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title_full_unstemmed Cortical blindness in a child with acute glomerulonephritis
title_short Cortical blindness in a child with acute glomerulonephritis
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