title: MR imaging of postpartum cortical blindness.
abstract: Cortical blindness is an unusual feature of the toxemia of pregnancy syndrome. We present the CT and magnetic resonance (MR) findings in two women who developed postpartum blindness as a manifestation of this condition. Though both CT and MR display reversible edematous changes in the occipital lobes, follow-up MR documents areas of hemorrhagic and nonhemorrhagic infarction where the corresponding CT images are normal.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI 96859-5000.
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Coughlin
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: McMurdo
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Reeves
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D001929:Brain Edema / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000150:complications*; D011247:Pregnancy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed