Citation

Reisin R, Liebovitz E, Levartovsky S. Harefuah 1998; 134(8): 613-615, 671.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Israel Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10911425

Abstract

A 40-year-old woman attempted suicide by drinking methanol. Her visual acuity began to deteriorate 36 hours later and was found to be 6/60 in her right eye with no light perception in the left. No systemic manifestations other than the eye symptoms were found. In the following months visual acuity improved without specific therapy. 2 months following the methanol, visual acuity was 6/6 in the right eye and finger-counting at 1 meter in the left eye. There was pronounced optic atrophy in the left eye, as well as a central defect in the left visual field due to the methanol toxicity.

Language: he

Keywords

Humans; Adult; Female; Visual Acuity; *Suicide, Attempted; Atrophy; Methanol/*poisoning; Optic Nerve/*drug effects/pathology/*physiopathology; Visual Fields