13th February 2025

Neurovascular

Haemorrhagic or ischaemic stroke can present with a visual defect. This can be a homonymous hemianopia, but the exact visual field loss is determined by the site affected.

Figure 3 recaps the visual field pathway and the resulting visual field defects according to which area is involved.

Image Source: Wikimedia Commons (2020). Hemianopsia en, Licensed under a creative commons licence. Available for free at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemianopsia_en.jpg, via Wikimedia Commons (Accessed: 18 January 2024).