Case 1. A primipara, pregnant seven months. Urine had been examined, but no albumen found. There was a marked optic-neuritis and some retinitis; later a few fan-shaped hemorrhages appeared. Vision was reduced to perception of light before labor was induced.
A living child was delivered.
Three years later vision was 20/30 in each eye, and there was albumen in the urine.
Case 2. A primipara, pregnant six and a half months. The urine was loaded with albumen. Numerous retinal hemorrhages, of dark color and irregular shape, and large plaques of exudation.
Vision failed rapidly and was reduced to perception of large objects. Recovery was slow. One year after delivery the RV was 20/20—; LV 12/200. The urine contained albumen.
Two-thirds of these cases of albuminuric neuro-retinitis complain of some disturbance of vision, and eye complications occasionally exist when no albumen can be found in the urine.
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