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Case Reports
. 1983 Jun;46(6):566-9.
doi: 10.1136/jnnp.46.6.566.

Postictal blindness in adults

M Sadeh, Y Goldhammer, A Kuritsky
Case Reports

Postictal blindness in adults

M Sadeh et al. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1983 Jun.

Abstract

Cortical blindness following grand mal seizures occurred in five adult patients. The causes of seizures included idiopathic epilepsy, vascular accident, brain cyst, acute encephalitis and chronic encephalitis. Blindness was permanent in one patients, but the others recovered within several days. Since most of the patients were either unaware of or denied their blindness, it is possible that this event often goes unrecognised. Cerebral hypoxia is considered the most likely mechanism.

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