Reversible Cortical Blindness Following Successful Surgical Repair Of Two Stab Wounds In The Heart
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Reversible Cortical Blindness Following Successful Surgical Repair Of Two Stab Wounds In The Heart
This report describes a case of cortical blindness that followed successful surgical repair of two stab wounds in the heart in a 29-year old Libyan man. The patient presented in a state of pre cardiac arrest (shock and low cardiac output status), following multiple chest stab wounds. Chest tube was immediately inserted. Surgery was urgently performed suturing the two wounds; in the root of the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Libyan Journal of Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1993-2820,1819-6357
DOI: 10.3402/ljm.v3i1.4752