Sudden, severe bilateral vision loss after coronary artery bypass grafting.
Marko M PopovicLaura DonaldsonEdward A MargolinPublished in: BMJ case reports (2021)
We describe a rare complication of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in a young man who presented with sudden, severe, bilateral visual loss after surgery. His ophthalmological examination was non-revealing; however, MRI of the brain revealed bilateral occipital lobe infarction. His infarction was presumed to be secondary to emboli arising from surgical manipulation within the atherosclerotic ascending aorta or from a cardiogenic thrombus formed due to perioperative arrhythmia.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- case report
- early onset
- pulmonary artery
- magnetic resonance imaging
- patients undergoing
- cardiac surgery
- white matter
- single cell
- contrast enhanced
- acute coronary syndrome
- computed tomography
- pulmonary hypertension
- diffusion weighted imaging
- magnetic resonance
- atrial fibrillation
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- cerebral ischemia
- blood brain barrier