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By far the most frequent cause of acute blindness is bilateral ischemia evolving toward infarction in the territory of the posterior cerebral artery. Of course, this requires occlusion of the top of the basilar artery where, as a rule, the posterior cerebral arteries branch off. Usually this is due to an embolus originating somewhere proximally, probably in one of the vertebral arteries. This is an emergency, because if the diagnosis is made within roughly 5 h of origin, intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy has a fair chance of success.
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Poeck, K. (1985). Acute Blindness. In: Diagnostic Decisions in Neurology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70693-6_2
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