Sudden Temporary Visual Loss in a Patient with Bilateral Intracranial Carotid Aneurysme

A dissecting aneurysme of the great cervical vessels causes local pain over the involved vessel, when the carotid artery involved there is severe retroorbital and frontal pain. Temporary severe visual loss is a rare symptom after dissection of the aneurysme We present a 52- year- old woman who developped sudden painful loss of vision in the left eye At first, we thought that she was having a retrobulber optic neuropathy. After a follow-up period the diagnosis was compressive optic neuropathy. This report emphisizes that the difficulty in imaging intracranial aneurysms of various sizes, the rapidity with which intracranial aneurysms can enlarge, and the importance of continued follow up examinations in patients thought to have optic neuritis.

Ýnternal Karotid Arter Anevrizmasýnda Ani Geçici Görme Kaybý