title: [Sudden visual loss after long-lasting spinal surgery].
abstract: Visual loss after anaesthesia and surgery is a rare, unexpected and devastating complication which particularly occurs after long-lasting spinal and cardiac surgery. There are several suggested risk factors but most of them are unsupported. Usually both eyes are involved and there is a painless profound loss of vision. The pupils are not reacting to light and at the beginning normal fundoscopy is found. The prognosis is very bad and no documented treatment is known. In this case report a 61-year-old man experienced complete loss of vision after complicated spinal surgery.
authors.affiliation: Lodsvej 57, 5270 Odense N. lisa.eilenberg@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Lisa Eilenberg
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Søgaard
authors.forename: Anne-Karina Abel
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Torkov
authors.forename: Anders Højslet
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Vestergaard
mesh_terms: D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000009:adverse effects; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D061646:Operative Time; D018917:Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic / Q000209:etiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000601:surgery