AMAUROSIS SECONDARY TO MASSIVE BLOOD-LOSS AFTER LUMBAR SPINE SURGERY

Reported herein is the unusual complication of blindness resulting fro m massive blood loss during a lumbar spine surgery. Amaurosis resultin g from distant hemorrhage is rare and, to the authors' knowledge, has not been reported in the orthopedic literature. Although there have be en several case reports in the ophthalmologic journals, none were seco ndary to an orthopedic surgical procedure.