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Published on: July 21, 2020
Acute bilateral blindness
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Joint Military Medical Centers, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA. bhoover64@aol.com
Abstract:
Acute bilateral blindness is an emergent condition that may signal life-threatening disease. This article details an emergency medicine approach to the patient with acute bilateral blindness, and reports a case of an elderly woman whose sole presenting complaint was acute loss of vision. She was ultimately diagnosed as having pulmonary embolism. The approach focuses on identification of life-threatening disease processes, while differentiating between ocular, psychogenic, and cortical etiologies.
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