title: Optic nerve enhancement in hypotensive ischemic optic neuropathy.
abstract: A 57-year-old woman who had hypotension and cardiac arrest during coronary artery bypass grafting developed hypotensive ischemic optic neuropathy with no light perception vision OU. Bilateral mid-orbital optic nerve enhancement was found on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) eight weeks after surgery. Re-examination 16 weeks after surgery showed no light perception vision, dilated un-reactive pupils, and pale optic discs. Bilateral optic nerve enhancement persisted on MRI. Optic nerve enhancement has been reported commonly in radiation-induced ischemic optic neuropathy, occasionally in arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy, and rarely in nonarteritic ischemic optic neuropathy. It has never been reported in hypotensive ischemic optic neuropathy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama, 700 South 18th Street, Birmingham, AL 53233, USA. vaph@uab.edu
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Vaphiades
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D001812:Blood-Brain Barrier; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007022:Hypotension / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology*; D018917:Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis