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Cortical blindness as a rare presentation of cerebral venous thrombosis

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians. Manifesting in a remarkably wide spectrum of symptoms and signs, CVT often presents in a misleading fashion—if unrecognized or misdiagnosed, it carries potentially fatal consequences. Visual loss is quite...

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Autores principales: Wang, Bonnie, Moon, Seong-Jin, Olivero, William C., Wang, Huan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24964444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjt035
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author Wang, Bonnie
Moon, Seong-Jin
Olivero, William C.
Wang, Huan
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Wang, Huan
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description Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians. Manifesting in a remarkably wide spectrum of symptoms and signs, CVT often presents in a misleading fashion—if unrecognized or misdiagnosed, it carries potentially fatal consequences. Visual loss is quite rare as the initial presentation of CVT and is typically a finding more frequent in chronic cases with associated papilledema on funduscopy Ferro, Lopes, Rosas and Fontes (Delay in Hospital Admission of Patients with Cerebral Vein and Dural Sinus Thrombosis. Cerebrovasc Dis 2005;19:152–6). We report a rare case of acute cortical blindness as the initial presentation of CVT in an 18-year-old female patient and review the current literature.
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spelling pubmed-38135092013-10-31 Cortical blindness as a rare presentation of cerebral venous thrombosis Wang, Bonnie Moon, Seong-Jin Olivero, William C. Wang, Huan J Surg Case Rep Case Reports Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians. Manifesting in a remarkably wide spectrum of symptoms and signs, CVT often presents in a misleading fashion—if unrecognized or misdiagnosed, it carries potentially fatal consequences. Visual loss is quite rare as the initial presentation of CVT and is typically a finding more frequent in chronic cases with associated papilledema on funduscopy Ferro, Lopes, Rosas and Fontes (Delay in Hospital Admission of Patients with Cerebral Vein and Dural Sinus Thrombosis. Cerebrovasc Dis 2005;19:152–6). We report a rare case of acute cortical blindness as the initial presentation of CVT in an 18-year-old female patient and review the current literature. Oxford University Press 2013-05 2013-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3813509/ /pubmed/24964444 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjt035 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2013. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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Cortical blindness as a rare presentation of cerebral venous thrombosis
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title_fullStr Cortical blindness as a rare presentation of cerebral venous thrombosis
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title_short Cortical blindness as a rare presentation of cerebral venous thrombosis
title_sort cortical blindness as a rare presentation of cerebral venous thrombosis
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24964444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjt035
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