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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Sudden painless loss of vision following spine surgery: lessons learnt in darkness.

Eswar Ramakrishnan, Sathish Muthu, Bosco Aju, Uvaraj R Nalli

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Eswar RamakrishnanInstitute of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Sathish MuthuGovernment Hospital, Velayuthampalayam, Karur, Tamil Nadu, India drsathishmuthu@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7143-4354
Bosco AjuInstitute of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Uvaraj R NalliInstitute of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Madras Medical College · INGovernment Medical College and Hospital · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 26-year-old male driver presented with a history of pain in the neck for the past 1 week following trauma due to a road traffic accident. The patient had no neurological deficit. He had type 1 diabetes and was on regular oral hypoglycemics. After radiological investigations, the patient was diagnosed to have traumatic AO Spine Classification type C translational injury involving anterolisthesis of C6 over C7. After a detailed preoperative assessment, the patient was taken up for surgery. The patient underwent posterior stabilisation with instrumentation from C5 to T2. On extubation from anaesthesia, he immediately complained of complete painless loss of this vision in his left eye. Ophthalmological investigations attributed the cause to be due to central retinal artery occlusion. The patient was discharged with reassurance on the 20th postoperative day with minimal improvement in his vision and at 6-month follow-up, his vision improved to 1/60 and was advised for close follow-up.

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AdultCervical VertebraeHumansMalePostoperative ComplicationsRetinal Artery OcclusionSpinal InjuriesVision Disorderseyeophthalmologyorthopaedic and trauma surgerytraumatrauma CNS /PNS

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PMID33461994
PMCPMC7813331
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