Monday, 20 March 2017

Transient Cortical Blindness Following Coronary Angiography



Coronary angiography (CA) is the headmost clinical tool for both diagnosis and intervention of coronary artery disease(CAD), and therefore, CA procedures occupy a huge space in modern healthcare practices. 


Transient Cortical Blindness

At the same time, the recurrent complications which accompany CA are extensively investigated. Such these complications are allergy to contrast, infection, nephropathy, embolism, local vascular injury, great vessel dissection, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, and even death . Transient cortical blindness following coronary angiography (TCBCA) is scarcely documented in the literature, and poorly studied. TCBCA is rare and less frequent; however, it has a devastating effect on patients who have already finished their CA. In this paper, a thorough investigation of this phenomenon and a comparison review of the available published literatures that specifically discuss TCBCA. Read more>>>>>>>>>

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