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The authors report on the behavior of the intraocular pressure of 20 patients who had sustained severe head injury. The 8 patients who retained normal intraocular pressure all survived. The 12 patients who developed intraocular hypotony all suffered brain death. Although optic disc edema was not noted in any brain-dead patients, we did find signs of fundus ischemia in most.
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Blank, W., Spring, A. Brain death and intraocular pressure. Neurosurg. Rev. 11, 19–23 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01795690
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