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Acute bilateral blindness.

B W Hoover·L B Stack
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Acute bilateral blindness is an emergent condition that may signal life-threatening disease. This article details an emergency medicine approach to the patient with acute bilateral blindness, and reports a case of an elderly woman whose sole presenting complaint was acute loss of vision. She was ultimately diagnosed as having pulmonary embolism. The approach focuses on identification of life-threatening disease processes, while differentiating between ocular, psychogenic, and cortical etiologies.

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B W Hoover, L B Stack. 1996. Acute bilateral blindness.. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03354.x

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