Citation

Koo EH, Boxerman JL, Murphy MA. J. Neuroophthalmol. 2011; 31(4): 347-349.

Affiliation

Departments of Ophthalmology (EHK, MAM) and Diagnostic Imaging (JLB), The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/WNO.0b013e318228dc87

PMID

21775894

Abstract

Victims of near-drowning incidents often suffer neurologic injury with long-term sequelae secondary to hypoxic-ischemic injury. We describe a case of profound visual loss due to bilateral occipital lobe infarcts in a 23-year-old male victim of a near-drowning incident.

Language: en