title: [Post-traumatic unilateral vision loss caused by carotid-cavernous fistula].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We show the subject with unilateral vision loss after head trauma. The carotid-cavernous fistula was a cause of one eye blindness recognized after 2 months.
  
  
  METHODS
  21 years old student with hard trauma of the head and brain after traffic accident. He had skull bones without optic canals bones broke. After 2 months he came to the Ophthalmology Clinic with no light perception, proptosis and swelling of conjunctiva and disturbances of motility of the left eye. We suspected a carotid-cavernous fistula as a cause of loss of light perception in this eye. The patient was sent to Neurosurgery Clinic where he had left carotid artery in the brain closed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After 8 days from the surgery he was in good physical condition but we didn't save the vision of the left eye.
authors.affiliation: Z Katedry i Kliniki Okulistyki Pomorskiej Akademii Medycznej w Szczecinie.
authors.forename: Lidia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Puchalska-Niedbał
authors.forename: Dariusz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jezewski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D020216:Carotid-Cavernous Sinus Fistula / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016896:Treatment Outcome