Case 33-1991

作者：Richard C. Cabot, Robert E. Scully, Eugene Jerome Mark, William F. McNeely, Betty U. McNeely, Moshe Lahav, Jana C. Sullinger · 发表于：New England Journal of Medicine · 年份：1991 · DOI：10.1056/nejm199108153250708 · 被引用次数：8 · 研究领域：Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases、Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis、Retinal and Optic Conditions

Presentation of CaseA 74-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a question of acute ischemic optic neuropathy.There was a history of atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease of many years' duration. A myocardial infarct occurred more than 20 years before admission. Seven years before entry a left below-knee amputation was performed because of assumed gangrene. Five years before admission the patient began to experience bouts of transient monocular blindness that involved the upper or lower visual field in the left eye. Forty-five months before entry noninvasive carotid studies, performed elsewhere, were reported to show bilateral carotid disease that . . .