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Case Reports
. 1996 Nov;3(11):1056-9.
doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03354.x.

Acute bilateral blindness

B W Hoover  1 , L B Stack
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Case Reports

Acute bilateral blindness

B W Hoover et al. Acad Emerg Med. 1996 Nov.
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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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  • Bilateral blindness.
    Kosowsky JM. Kosowsky JM. Acad Emerg Med. 1997 Aug;4(8):834-5. Acad Emerg Med. 1997. PMID: 9262707 No abstract available.

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