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A 16-year-old female patient, with a congenital heart defect (interatrial communication) underwent heart surgery. She evolved with complications in the immediate postoperative period with sudden hemorrhagic hypotension and progressive loss of sight in both eyes. In the postoperative period there was a high intraocular pressure and optic disk edema. Optic atrophy and irreversible bilateral blindness was confirmed 21 days after heart surgery despite treatment. In two years of follow-up, the patient is completely blind with irreversible optic atrophy. Descriptors Amaurose bilateral irreversível pós-cirurgia cardíacaIrreversible bilateral amaurosis after heart surgery 321 SOUZA, VC ET AL -Irreversible bilateral amaurosis after heart surgery Braz