Cortical Blindness After Cardiac Surgery: Just an Ischemic Mechanism?

Maenia Scarpino; Giuseppe Olivo; Pietro Quilghini; Giovanni Lanzo; Marco Moretti; Riccardo Carrai; Paolo Fontanari; Aldo Amantini; Antonello Grippo

doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2015.09.006

Cortical Blindness After Cardiac Surgery: Just an Ischemic Mechanism?

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2016 Aug;30(4):1053-6. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2015.09.006. Epub 2015 Sep 25.

Authors

Maenia Scarpino¹, Giuseppe Olivo², Pietro Quilghini², Giovanni Lanzo³, Marco Moretti⁴, Riccardo Carrai¹, Paolo Fontanari², Aldo Amantini¹, Antonello Grippo⁵

Affiliations

¹ IRCCS Don Carlo Gnocchi, Florence, Italy; Neuromuscular Department.
² Heart and Vessel.
³ Neuromuscular Department.
⁴ Neuroradiology Service Department, AOU Careggi, Florence, Italy.
⁵ IRCCS Don Carlo Gnocchi, Florence, Italy; Neuromuscular Department. Electronic address: agrippo@unifi.it.

PMID: 26746795
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2015.09.006

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac surgery; cortical blindness; magnetic resonance imaging; perioperative visual disturbance; posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Blindness, Cortical / etiology*
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Cardiac Surgical Procedures*
Edema / complications
Edema / diagnostic imaging
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome / complications*
Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome / diagnostic imaging*
Postoperative Complications / diagnostic imaging*