Transient blindness in a preeclamptic patient secondary to cerebral edema
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1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, USA.
Hawaii Medical Journal
|July 1, 1996
Abstract:
Blindness associated with a cerebral lesion has been described as cortical blindness. This is the first reported case in which computerized tomography has documented cerebral edema to be the cause of cortical blindness in a preeclamptic patient.