Pregnancy Associated Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy

Abstract

We report an unusual case of total blindness with significant recovery of vision, secondary to ischaemic changes in the optic nerves at the end and immediately following pregnancy in a previously healthy woman. At the acute stage, funduscopy revealed disc oedema, followed by pallor developing within a few weeks, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings consistent with acute ischaemia of the optic nerves.

Keywords::

• diffusion-weighted image
• peripartum loss of vision
• reversibility of blindness

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