Cortical blindness after coronary angiog
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Kinn, Robert M. ;Breisblatt, Warren M.
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Article
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1991
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Transient cortical blindness is a recognized complication after vertebral and cerebral angiography but is a rare event after cardiac angiography. The development of cortical blindness appears to be an adverse reaction to the contrast agent which results in an osmotic disruption of the blood-brain ba