title: Amaurosis and blood loss.
abstract: A 57-year-old alcoholic man sustained permanent bilateral blindness and optic atrophy as a complication of hemorrhage from peptic ulcer disease. Post-hemorrhagic visual loss occurs in middle-aged, debilitated persons a short time after repeated episodes of hemorrhage from any site.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications*; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000150:complications; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005734:Gangrene; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009896:Optic Atrophy / Q000150:complications; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D011859:Radiography; D012171:Retinal Vessels; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000150:complications*