Transient cortical visual impairment after video-assisted thoracic surgery: a case report

BACKGROUND: Visual loss associated with thoracic surgery has been reported mostly after coronary angiography or bypass surgery. The position of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is usually lateral, thus not compressive to the globe. Visual loss after VATS has not been reported. Herein we report...

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Autores principales: Yang, Hee Kyung, Hwang, Jeong-Min
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4650142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26577679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-015-0157-1
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description BACKGROUND: Visual loss associated with thoracic surgery has been reported mostly after coronary angiography or bypass surgery. The position of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is usually lateral, thus not compressive to the globe. Visual loss after VATS has not been reported. Herein we report a patient without any cardiovascular risk factors who experienced transient cortical blindness after an uneventful VATS. CASE PRESENTATION: A 40-year-old man noticed a visual loss at the recovery room after VATS. He showed normal pupillary reflex, normal optic disc appearance, and homonymous hemianopia respecting the vertical meridian, thus was typical for cortical visual impairment. CONCLUSIONS: Transient cortical visual impairment could be encountered after an uneventful VATS in a patient without any cardiovascular risk factors.
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spelling pubmed-46501422015-11-19 Transient cortical visual impairment after video-assisted thoracic surgery: a case report Yang, Hee Kyung Hwang, Jeong-Min BMC Ophthalmol Case Report BACKGROUND: Visual loss associated with thoracic surgery has been reported mostly after coronary angiography or bypass surgery. The position of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is usually lateral, thus not compressive to the globe. Visual loss after VATS has not been reported. Herein we report a patient without any cardiovascular risk factors who experienced transient cortical blindness after an uneventful VATS. CASE PRESENTATION: A 40-year-old man noticed a visual loss at the recovery room after VATS. He showed normal pupillary reflex, normal optic disc appearance, and homonymous hemianopia respecting the vertical meridian, thus was typical for cortical visual impairment. CONCLUSIONS: Transient cortical visual impairment could be encountered after an uneventful VATS in a patient without any cardiovascular risk factors. BioMed Central 2015-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4650142/ /pubmed/26577679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-015-0157-1 Text en © Yang and Hwang. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Transient cortical visual impairment after video-assisted thoracic surgery: a case report
title_sort transient cortical visual impairment after video-assisted thoracic surgery: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4650142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26577679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-015-0157-1
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