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Unilateral Visual Loss Following Intranasal Surgery

Posted Thu, Jun, 27,2013

Published today in Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports is a new case report  by J. Awad, A. Awad, Y. Wong and S. Thomas.  Read more about this paper below:

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Unilateral Visual Loss after a Nasal Airway Surgery

Abstract

Septoplasty and turbinoplasty are common ear, nose, throat (ENT) operations which generally have low complication rates. A 45-year-old man had a septoplasty operation and a right turbinoplasty operation under a combined general and local anesthetic. He woke from the procedure with a reduced visual acuity in the right eye and substantial inferior visual field loss. A review of the current literature focuses on the vasospasm effects of local anesthetic, in combination with epinephrine on the intricately linked nasal and orbital vascular supply.

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