Titre
Recovery of postoperative visual loss following treatment of severe anaemia.
Type
étude de cas
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Kawasaki, A.
Auteure/Auteur
Purvin, V.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1442-6404
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2006
Volume
34
Numéro
5
Première page
497
Dernière page/numéro d’article
9
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Case Reports ; Letter Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
A 29-year-old pregnant woman noted acute visual loss following emergent Caesarean section complicated by excessive uterine bleeding. Postoperative visual acuity was count fingers in both eyes. Funduscopic changes were consistent with a diagnosis of anaemia-associated ischaemic optic neuropathy and retinopathy. One month later, because of persistent anaemia and poor visual recovery, blood transfusion was given. Following transfusion, the patient's vision improved over the next 6 months. In an otherwise healthy patient, visual loss associated with postoperative blood loss may still be partially reversible with correction of the anaemia, even after a delayed period of time.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_A5FA12D115A5
PMID
Date de création
2009-11-21T16:09:06.182Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T21:36:55Z