title: Cortical blindness following a near-drowning incident.
abstract: Victims of near-drowning incidents often suffer neurologic injury with long-term sequelae secondary to hypoxic-ischemic injury. We describe a case of profound visual loss due to bilateral occipital lobe infarcts in a 23-year-old male victim of a near-drowning incident.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA.
authors.forename: Ellen H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Koo
authors.forename: Jerrold L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Boxerman
authors.forename: Marjorie A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D019575:Blindness, Cortical / Q000209:etiology*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D015701:Near Drowning / Q000150:complications*; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult