Isolated bilateral blindness as the sole manifestation of transient ischaemic attacks

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 415-418

  Krasnianski, Michael ^a   Bau, Viktoria ^a   Neudecker, Stephan ^a   Lindner, Alfred ^b   Zierz, Stephan ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b MARIENHOSPITAL STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amaurosis; Cortical blindness; Transient bilateral blindness; Transient ischaemic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33646820997     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: 16000420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2006.00635.x     Document Type: Article

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