Caractéristiques de la cécité post-traumatique à l’hôpital d’instruction, d’application et de référence des armées de Yaoundé

Bilateral blindness following a stabbing assault: A case report

“…The extraction of the knife has to be avoided, otherwise this gesture can worsen the lesions, or lead to a potential hemorrhage, and can only be done in the operating room by allowing the control of the blade of the knife on all its route [5] . Removal of the knife can be performed in the interventional neuroradiology room after prior endovascular treatment to avoid potential hemorrhage [7] . Removal of a superficial cutting agent could be done easily but the deeper ones are more difficult to extract and are associated with more complications, especially, those in head and neck area.…”

Altered white matter integrity in patients with monocular blindness: A diffusion tensor imaging and tract‐based spatial statistics study

“…(Sun et al, 2019) In addition, ocular trauma and brain neuropathy may lead to blindness. (Ibrahim, Sweis, & Nockels, 2017;Koki et al, 2018) Drug and surgical treatments exert beneficial effects on reversible blindness, and recent studies have shown that treatment of irreversible blindness may be possible. (Chen et al, 2019;Shim et al, 2019) Blindness has become a global health problem, with a total of 145.2 million individuals worldwide suffering from severe vision impairment or blindness due to preventable and remediable reasons.…”