Transient cortical blindness after intradiscal oxygen-ozone therapy

Indian J Ophthalmol. 2016 Dec;64(12):944-946. doi: 10.4103/0301-4738.198858.

Abstract

A 54-year-old caucasian male developed bilateral blindness during an oxygen-ozone injection for disc herniation. The visual loss (VL) was immediately followed by severe frontal headache, vomiting, and nausea. The patient underestimated the VL showing Anton's syndrome, with a complete visual recovery after 2-month follow-up. Magnetic resonance data were consistent with recent ischemic lesions in bilateral vascular territories of posterior cerebral arteries.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Blindness, Cortical / diagnosis
  • Blindness, Cortical / etiology*
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Embolism, Air / complications*
  • Embolism, Air / diagnosis
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Injections
  • Intervertebral Disc Displacement / therapy*
  • Intracranial Embolism / complications*
  • Intracranial Embolism / diagnosis
  • Lumbar Vertebrae*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Oxygen / administration & dosage
  • Oxygen / adverse effects*
  • Ozone / administration & dosage
  • Ozone / adverse effects*
  • Sacrum
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial

Substances

  • Ozone
  • Oxygen