Kleiter, Ingo and Luerding, Ralf and Diendorfer, Gerhard and Rek, Helga and Bogdahn, Ulrich and Schalke, Berthold (2007) A lightning strike to the head causing a visual cortex defect with simple and complex visual hallucinations. JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY, 78 (4). pp. 423-426. ISSN 0022-3050, 1468-330X
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The case of a 23-year-old mountaineer who was hit by a lightning strike to the occiput causing a large central visual field defect and bilateral tympanic membrane ruptures is described. Owing to extreme agitation, the patient was set to a drug-induced coma for 3 days. After extubation, she experienced simple and complex visual hallucinations for several days, but otherwise recovered largely. Neuropsychological tests revealed deficits in fast visual detection tasks and non-verbal learning, and indicated a right temporal lobe dysfunction, consistent with a right temporal focus on electroencephalography. Four months after the accident, she developed a psychological reaction consisting of nightmares with reappearance of the complex visual hallucinations and a depressive syndrome. Using the European Cooperation for Lightning Detection network, a meteorological system for lightning surveillance, the exact geographical location and nature of the lightning flash were retrospectively retraced.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | INJURIES; FIELD; |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Neurologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2020 14:47 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2020 14:47 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/32972 |
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