Blindness in Eclampsia: CT and MR Imaging

Overview

Journal J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry

Publisher BMJ Publishing Group

Specialties Neurology
Neurosurgery
Psychiatry

Date 1989 Jul 1

PMID 2769284

Citations 7

Authors

R Duncan

D Hadley

I Bone

E M Symonds

B S Worthington

P C Rubin

Affiliations

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Abstract

Three cases of cortical blindness complicating eclampsia are described, with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and X-ray computed tomography (CT). The correspondence of MRI lesions (hyperintense on T2 weighted, and hypointense on T1 weighted sections) and low attenuation lesions on CT scan indicated ischaemia rather than haemorrhage as the pathological mechanism.

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