Department of Medicine and Neurology, Jagannath Gupta Institute of Medical Science, West Bengal, India
Case Report
Anton syndrome due to bilateral posterior cerebral artery stroke
with polyneuropathy in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes
mellitus
Author(s): Krishnendu Choudhury*, Swapan Sarkar, Subhadeep Basu and Supratim Ghosh
Anton syndrome comprises of visual loss from cortical damage with
patients not perceiving their own blindness in the absence of psychiatric
illness or underlying cognitive impairment. Most commonly it results
from bilateral posterior cerebral artery stroke.
In 1920, Meyer first reported occipital lobe infarction and postulated
compression of branches of the posterior cerebral artery as the causal
factor for Anton syndrome.
Joseph Babinski (1857-1932) used the term “anosognosia” for the
first time, to describe the unawareness of the deficit in patients with
hemiplegia.
We present an elderly man with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
who was admitted with symptoms of sudden blurring of vision and
repeated fall but he denied having visual loss. On evaluation he was
found to have bilateral posterior cerebral artery i.. View More»
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