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Visual disturbances and transurethral resection of the prostate: the TURP syndrome.
Journal article

Visual disturbances and transurethral resection of the prostate: the TURP syndrome.

  • 1997-01-01
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  • European neurology. - 1997
Aged
Glycine
Humans
Male
Prostatectomy
Remission, Spontaneous
Syndrome
Therapeutic Irrigation
Vision Disorders
Water Intoxication
English A 73-year-old man with a history of a cerebral and a cardiac vascular disease and atrial flutter developed visual disturbances characterized by vision being dark in both eyes and by seeing as through a color photographic negative immediately after an uncomplicated transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for prostatic hyperplasia under spinal anesthesia. There was complete remission of the symptomatology after 2.5 h. A cerebrovascular workup was negative. Considering postoperative hyponatremia and hypoosmality, we discuss the possible role of glycine-induced visual disturbances as described in the TURP reaction syndrome, to our knowledge an entity almost unknown in the neurologic literature. Glycine-induced visual disturbances should therefore be considered in the differential diagnosis of bilateral transient visual loss.
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