Bilateral cortical blindness after recurrent ischemic stroke

Abstract

Cerebrovascular diseases, which are the third most common cause of death after cardiovascular diseases and cancer, represents an enormous public health burden. Visual loss caused by geniculocalcarine visual pathways are named cortical blindness. The causes of cortical blindness include head trauma, episodes of hypoglycemia or hypotension, cardiac arrest, stroke, tumor and occipital lobe epilepsy. We present a case of right occipital cortex with encephalomalacic change after a previous ischemic stroke and total cortical blindness with a newly developing ischemic stroke in the left occipital cortex.

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