Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society

The Korean Neurosurgical Society (대한신경외과학회)
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Blindness Caused by Wrapping of the ICA Aneurysm

  • Lim, Jae-Kwan (Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Hallym University) ;
  • Hwang, Hyung-Sik (Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Hallym University) ;
  • Moon, Seung-Myung (Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Hallym University) ;
  • Choi, Sun-Kil (Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Hallym University)
  • Published : 2006.12.31
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Abstract

The incidence of blindness after aneurysm surgery is very rare. We experienced a case of unilateral blindness after internal carotid artery[ICA] aneurysm wrapping. A 43-year-old male immediately developed ipsilateral ocular pain and visual loss in his left eye after the treatment of a lateral ICA aneurysm by wrapping with muscle pieces. He had also multiple aneurysms, which were multilobulated anterior communicating artery [A-com], middle cerebral artery[MCA] and posterior communicating artery [P-com] aneurysms. Coilings were done for a part of A-com artery aneurysm and P-com artery aneurysm on admission. The remaining A-com artery aneurysm was clipped and ICA aneurysm was wrapped with temporal muscle piece. A retrobulbar optic neuropathy might have resulted from either direct injury or damage to small dural vessels of the posterior optic nerve. Actually, the optico-carotid space was tight and the optic nerve was compressed by swollen muscle piece. Despite releasing of compression of the optic nerve on second day, his visual loss was irreversible.

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