Erschienen in:
30.12.2017 | Letter to the Editor
Bilateral simultaneous amaurosis as onset and unique symptom in giant cell arteritis
verfasst von:
Maria Mirabela Manea, Dorin Dragoş, Dorel Arsene, Sorin Tuţă
Erschienen in:
Acta Neurologica Belgica
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Ausgabe 2/2018
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Excerpt
This is the case of a 76-year-old patient with a history of arterial hypertension, who was admitted in our clinic for complete blindness with sudden onset. The patient reported the occurence 5 days before the hospitalization in our clinic of an episode of transient (few hours) bilateral amaurosis (described as a rapid transition from less bright to almost black vision in both eyes), not accompanied by any neurological deficits. The recent history of the patient did not include any headache, masticatory or lingual claudication, or episodes compatible with carotid transient ischemic attacks. …