Optic neuropathy of recurrent blood loss.
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چکیده
Loss of vision after severe and recurrent haemorrhage, an occasional but serious complication, is an established clinical entity recognized from the writings of the earliest medical authorities. Formerly thought only to follow recurrent upper gastrointestinal (Goerlitz, 1920; Bamford and Barber, 1940; Black, '945; Avery Jones, 1947; Locket, I949; Gavey, I963), uterine (Pines, 1931), or therapeutic bleeding (Esquirol, I838), it is now recognized that similar visual loss may follow open heart surgery (Lamb, I96I; Gilman, I964) and cardiac arrest (Weinberger, I962). This paper presents three instances in which the visual loss followed closely on surgery and one in which the classical pattern evolved.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of ophthalmology
دوره 53 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1969