Description
Stroke is the most common cause of adult physical disability in the United Kingdom.1 Patients who suffer cerebrovascular events exclusive to the occipital lobe often have no significant neurological deficits other than visual loss.2 We describe a 93 year old woman who presented with unilateral visual loss as a result of an occipital infarct who then suffered a contralateral occipital infarct during her admission rendering her permanently blind. We describe the clinical effects of bilateral occipital infarcts and the risk factors predicting the probability of subsequent bilateralisation of occipital stroke.
