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Medical & Surgical Ophthalmology Research

Visual Field Recovery - Case Report of a Patient with Left Homonymous Hemianopsia Post-Stroke

  • Open or Close Marsha Davis Benshir*

    Center for Vision Development, USA

    *Corresponding author: Marsha Davis Benshir, Center for Vision Development, 164 W Main St Ste. B New Market, MD 21774, USA

Submission: February 06, 2018; Published: March 23, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/MSOR.2018.01.000522

ISSN: 2578-0360
Volume1 Issue5

Abstract

Visual field loss from stroke occurs in up to 50% of patients requiring hospitalization for rehabilitation after stroke [1]. Of these patients many will have spontaneous recovery and others will adapt through physical and occupational therapy. Vision rehabilitation modeled on other widely used types of therapy post-stroke has been demonstrated to restore peripheral vision in some patients beyond the expected window for spontaneous recovery of peripheral vision.

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