Book contents
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Chapter Fifteen Carotid Artery Disease
- Chapter Sixteen Lacunes
- Chapter Seventeen Vertebrobasilar Disease
- Chapter Eighteen Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Chapter Nineteen Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Chapter Twenty Vascular Malformations
- Chapter Twenty One Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
- Chapter Twenty Two Arterial Dissections, Fibromuscular Dysplasia, Moyamoya Disease, and Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome
- Chapter Twenty Three Blood Disorders
- Chapter Twenty Four Stroke Genetics
- Chapter Twenty Five Eye Vascular Disease
- Chapter Twenty Six Spinal Cord Vascular Disease
- Some Key Physicians
- Imaging
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Chapter Twenty Five - Eye Vascular Disease
from Types of Stroke
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2022
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Chapter Fifteen Carotid Artery Disease
- Chapter Sixteen Lacunes
- Chapter Seventeen Vertebrobasilar Disease
- Chapter Eighteen Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Chapter Nineteen Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Chapter Twenty Vascular Malformations
- Chapter Twenty One Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
- Chapter Twenty Two Arterial Dissections, Fibromuscular Dysplasia, Moyamoya Disease, and Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome
- Chapter Twenty Three Blood Disorders
- Chapter Twenty Four Stroke Genetics
- Chapter Twenty Five Eye Vascular Disease
- Chapter Twenty Six Spinal Cord Vascular Disease
- Some Key Physicians
- Imaging
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Summary
Physicians of the nineteenth century were aware that some patients developed sudden or persistent loss of vision, but they did not connect the disorder with stroke. In 1835 in a book on eye diseases, Richard Middlemore used the term “periodical amaurosis” to describe attacks of temporary visual loss [1]. Later, amaurosis fugax (from the Greek amaurosis, meaning dark, and the Latin fugax, meaning fleeting) was a common term used for transient loss of vision in one or both eyes.
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- Stories of StrokeKey Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas, pp. 226 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022