Irreversible Loss of Vision in a Child due to Occipital Infarction after Gastroenteritis

A 2½-year-old girl developed a bilateral occipital infarct following severe gastroenteritis with bilateral vision of light perception. Evaluations for sickle cell anemia, hemolytic anemia and coagulopathies were negative. Cortical blindness is an uncommon but dramatic complication of gastroenteritis...

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Autores principales: Mansour, Ahmad M., Hasbini, Dana, Younis, Muhammad H., Bhatti, M. Tariq
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Published online: March, 2015
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4410510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25960732
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000381258
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description A 2½-year-old girl developed a bilateral occipital infarct following severe gastroenteritis with bilateral vision of light perception. Evaluations for sickle cell anemia, hemolytic anemia and coagulopathies were negative. Cortical blindness is an uncommon but dramatic complication of gastroenteritis, hence the need of prompt hydration and other supportive measures to avoid irreversible visual loss or mental sequela.
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spelling pubmed-44105102015-05-08 Irreversible Loss of Vision in a Child due to Occipital Infarction after Gastroenteritis Mansour, Ahmad M. Hasbini, Dana Younis, Muhammad H. Bhatti, M. Tariq Case Rep Ophthalmol Published online: March, 2015 A 2½-year-old girl developed a bilateral occipital infarct following severe gastroenteritis with bilateral vision of light perception. Evaluations for sickle cell anemia, hemolytic anemia and coagulopathies were negative. Cortical blindness is an uncommon but dramatic complication of gastroenteritis, hence the need of prompt hydration and other supportive measures to avoid irreversible visual loss or mental sequela. S. Karger AG 2015-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4410510/ /pubmed/25960732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000381258 Text en Copyright © 2015 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. 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.
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title_full Irreversible Loss of Vision in a Child due to Occipital Infarction after Gastroenteritis
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title_short Irreversible Loss of Vision in a Child due to Occipital Infarction after Gastroenteritis
title_sort irreversible loss of vision in a child due to occipital infarction after gastroenteritis
topic Published online: March, 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4410510/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000381258
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