title: Acute Visual Loss.
abstract: Acute visual loss is a frightening experience, a common ophthalmic emergency, and a diagnostic challenge. In this review, the author focusses on the diagnosis of transient monocular blindness and visual loss due to infarction of the retina and/or the optic nerve-the ocular parallel of cerebral stroke.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Shirley H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Wray
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology*