Amaurosis fugax

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G45.3-

The term amaurosis fugax refers to transient monocular visual field loss or blindness.

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The incidence ranges from ~ 1.5 per 100,000 in the third decade of life to ~ 32 per 100,000 in the seventh decade of life 1.

References

    1. Petzold, Axel, et al. "Embolic and nonembolic transient monocular visual field loss: a clinicopathologic review." Survey of ophthalmology 58.1 (2013): 42-62. ↩ ↩

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