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Acute Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Mimicking Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke Visualized by 3-Tesla MRI

Acute ischemic lesions of the posterior optic nerve and optic tract can produce a variety of visual field defects. A 71-year-old woman presented with acute hemianopia, which led to rt-PA thrombolysis for suspected posterior cerebral artery ischemia. 3-Tesla cMRI, however, revealed the cause to be an...

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Autores principales: Menzel, Tilman, Kern, Rolf, Griebe, Martin, Hennerici, Michael, Fatar, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000343949
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author Menzel, Tilman
Kern, Rolf
Griebe, Martin
Hennerici, Michael
Fatar, Marc
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description Acute ischemic lesions of the posterior optic nerve and optic tract can produce a variety of visual field defects. A 71-year-old woman presented with acute hemianopia, which led to rt-PA thrombolysis for suspected posterior cerebral artery ischemia. 3-Tesla cMRI, however, revealed the cause to be an acute posterior ischemic optic neuropathy. Cases like this may be more common than thought and quite regularly overlooked in clinical practice, especially when there is no high-resolution MRI available. This case strengthens the importance of repeat MR imaging in patients with persistent visual field defects.
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spelling pubmed-35060392012-11-26 Acute Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Mimicking Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke Visualized by 3-Tesla MRI Menzel, Tilman Kern, Rolf Griebe, Martin Hennerici, Michael Fatar, Marc Case Rep Neurol Published online: November, 2012 Acute ischemic lesions of the posterior optic nerve and optic tract can produce a variety of visual field defects. A 71-year-old woman presented with acute hemianopia, which led to rt-PA thrombolysis for suspected posterior cerebral artery ischemia. 3-Tesla cMRI, however, revealed the cause to be an acute posterior ischemic optic neuropathy. Cases like this may be more common than thought and quite regularly overlooked in clinical practice, especially when there is no high-resolution MRI available. This case strengthens the importance of repeat MR imaging in patients with persistent visual field defects. S. Karger AG 2012-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3506039/ /pubmed/23185170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000343949 Text en Copyright © 2012 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: November, 2012
Menzel, Tilman
Kern, Rolf
Griebe, Martin
Hennerici, Michael
Fatar, Marc
Acute Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Mimicking Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke Visualized by 3-Tesla MRI
title Acute Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Mimicking Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke Visualized by 3-Tesla MRI
title_full Acute Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Mimicking Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke Visualized by 3-Tesla MRI
title_fullStr Acute Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Mimicking Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke Visualized by 3-Tesla MRI
title_full_unstemmed Acute Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Mimicking Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke Visualized by 3-Tesla MRI
title_short Acute Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Mimicking Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke Visualized by 3-Tesla MRI
title_sort acute posterior ischemic optic neuropathy mimicking posterior cerebral artery stroke visualized by 3-tesla mri
topic Published online: November, 2012
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000343949
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