Postpartum cortical blindness.

نویسنده

  • Shakeel Ahmed Faiz
چکیده

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.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP

دوره 18 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008