Cortical Blindness Following Spinal Surgery: Very Rare Cause of Perioperative Vision Loss

A 38-year-old man was operated with posterior spinal decompression and pedicle screw instrumentation for his L2 fracture with incomplete neurological deficit. In the recovery, he complained of blindness in both eyes after twelve hours. Computed tomographic scan and magnetic resonance angiography rev...

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Autores principales: Goni, Vijay, Tripathy, Sujit Kumar, Goyal, Tarun, Tamuk, Tajir, Panda, Bijnya Birajita, BK, Shashidhar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Spine Surgery 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23275814
http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2012.6.4.287
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author Goni, Vijay
Tripathy, Sujit Kumar
Goyal, Tarun
Tamuk, Tajir
Panda, Bijnya Birajita
BK, Shashidhar
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description A 38-year-old man was operated with posterior spinal decompression and pedicle screw instrumentation for his L2 fracture with incomplete neurological deficit. In the recovery, he complained of blindness in both eyes after twelve hours. Computed tomographic scan and magnetic resonance angiography revealed bilateral occipital lobe infarcts. He remained permanently blind even after three years follow-up. Though rare, perioperative vision loss is a potential complication following spine surgery in prone position. We report a rare occurrence of cortical blindness following lumbar spine surgery.
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spelling pubmed-35307052012-12-28 Cortical Blindness Following Spinal Surgery: Very Rare Cause of Perioperative Vision Loss Goni, Vijay Tripathy, Sujit Kumar Goyal, Tarun Tamuk, Tajir Panda, Bijnya Birajita BK, Shashidhar Asian Spine J Case Report A 38-year-old man was operated with posterior spinal decompression and pedicle screw instrumentation for his L2 fracture with incomplete neurological deficit. In the recovery, he complained of blindness in both eyes after twelve hours. Computed tomographic scan and magnetic resonance angiography revealed bilateral occipital lobe infarcts. He remained permanently blind even after three years follow-up. Though rare, perioperative vision loss is a potential complication following spine surgery in prone position. We report a rare occurrence of cortical blindness following lumbar spine surgery. Korean Society of Spine Surgery 2012-12 2012-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3530705/ /pubmed/23275814 http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2012.6.4.287 Text en Copyright © 2012 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Cortical Blindness Following Spinal Surgery: Very Rare Cause of Perioperative Vision Loss
title_full_unstemmed Cortical Blindness Following Spinal Surgery: Very Rare Cause of Perioperative Vision Loss
title_short Cortical Blindness Following Spinal Surgery: Very Rare Cause of Perioperative Vision Loss
title_sort cortical blindness following spinal surgery: very rare cause of perioperative vision loss
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23275814
http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2012.6.4.287
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