title: Cortical blindness in a child with acute glomerulonephritis.
abstract: The association between hypertensive encephalopathy and cortical blindness in children with acute glomerulonephritis is extremely rare. We report the case of a 9-year old girl who presented with headache, seizures, altered sensorium, hematuria, and transient cortical blindness as a complication of hypertensive encephalopathy which showed complete reversal following normalization of blood pressure and an underlying post-infectious acute glomerulonephritis was revealed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, India.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaarthigeyan
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Vijayalakshmi