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Published on: November 12, 2020
Transient cortical blindness and successful recovery after coronary bypass surgery
Kutay Tasdemir1, Cem Evereklioglu, Mehmet G Kaya
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Erciyes University School of Medicine Kayseri, Turkey.
Abstract:
Left ventricular injury has a bad prognosis, especially when a coronary artery is involved. After perforation of the left cardiac ventricle by a knife, a 19-year-old male patient presented with: (i) complete bilateral visual loss; (ii) left anterior descending (LAD) artery injury; (iii) severe systemic hypotension. Under emergency conditions and cardiopulmonary bypass, the LAD artery was revascularized by a saphenous vein graft. Bilateral blindness recovered within several days. Cerebral hypoxia as a result of severe systemic hypotension was the most likely underlying mechanism.
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