1. Postpartum cortical blindness.
- Author
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Faiz SA
- Subjects
- Adult, Anti-Bacterial Agents therapeutic use, Blindness, Cortical diagnosis, Blindness, Cortical drug therapy, Ceftazidime therapeutic use, Clindamycin therapeutic use, Dexamethasone therapeutic use, Female, Glucocorticoids therapeutic use, Humans, Pregnancy, Puerperal Disorders diagnosis, Risk Factors, Blindness, Cortical etiology, Cerebral Arterial Diseases complications, Cesarean Section adverse effects, Postpartum Period, Pregnancy Complications, Puerperal Disorders etiology
- Abstract
A 30-years-old third gravida with previous normal pregnancies and an unremarkable prenatal course had an emergency lower segment caesarean section at a periphery hospital for failure of labour to progress. She developed bilateral cortical blindness immediately after recovery from anesthesia due to cerebral angiopathy shown by CT and MR scan as cortical infarct cerebral angiopathy, which is a rare complication of a normal pregnancy.
- Published
- 2008
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