Acute Bilateral Blindness |
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| Authors: | Bradley W. Hoover MD MAJ MC USA Lawrence B. Stack MD |
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| Affiliation: | Joint Military Medical Centers, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, Department of Emergency Medicine;Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, Department of Emergency Medicine |
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| Abstract: | Acute bilateral blindness is an emergent condition that may signal life-threatening disease. This article details an emergency medicine approach to the patient with acute bilateral blindness, and reports a case of an elderly woman whose sole presenting complaint was acute loss of vision. She was ultimately diagnosed as having pulmonary embolism. The approach focuses on identification of life-threatening disease processes, while differentiating between ocular. psychogenic, and cortical etiologies. |
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| Keywords: | blindness vision cortical blindness bilateral blindness neurology pulmonary embolism case report |
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