Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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Emília Francisco

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• Case Report
  Contrast-Induced Encephalopathy after Endovascular Lower Limb Revascularization: A Rare Cause of Blindness
  Author(s): Emília Francisco, Francisco Seixas, Angela Carmezim Mota, Manuela Pereira and Humberto S MachadoEmília Francisco, Francisco Seixas, Angela Carmezim Mota, Manuela Pereira and Humberto S Machado
  
  Background and objectives: Contrast-induced encephalopathy (CIE) after endovascular lower limb revascularization is an uncommon complication caused by the administration of intravascular contrast media. The clinical presentation of CIE is variable, ranging from cortical blindness to encephalopathy, seizures, and focal neurological deficits. It is often an exclusion diagnosis. In this case, CIE remains the most likely diagnosis on the basis of the symptoms and typical radiological findings. The authors want to point up how blindness after surgery led to CIE diagnosis and all the major complications that followed with patient dead. Case report: We describe a case of a 77 year-old male patient who developed CIE after endovascular lower limb revascularization of the right iliac artery. He had a history of high blood pressure, type II diabetes mell.. View More»
  

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