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Unexplained visual loss after lumbar spinal fusion
S Roth1, R Nunez, B D Schreider
1Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
|October 27, 1997
Abstract:
Two cases of visual loss after spinal fusion surgery are described. In both cases, surgery was lengthy, the patient's head was placed in a dependent position, and hemodilution and deliberate hypotension were combined. One patient was achondroplastic, the other obese. Possible risk factors associated with ischemic optic neuropathy after anesthesia and surgery are discussed.
