Bilateral optical nerve atrophy secondary to lateral occipital lobe infarction
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Bilateral optical nerve atrophy secondary to lateral occipital lobe infarction
Abstract
Purpose: To report a phenomenon of optical nerve atrophy secondary to lateral occipital lobe infarction.
Methods: Two successive patients with unilateral occipital lobe infarction who experienced bilateral optical nerve atrophy during the follow-up underwent cranial imaging, fundus photography, and campimetry.
Results: Each patient was diagnosed with occipital lobe infarction by cranial MRI. During the follow-up, a bilateral optic atrophy was revealed, and campimetry showed a right homonymous hemianopia of both eyes with concomitant macular division.
Conclusion: Bilateral optic atrophy was related to occipital lobe infarction, and a possible explanation for the atrophy was transneuronal degeneration caused by occipital lobe infarction.
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