Heart Attack & Sight

[njsjcf]

Will or can a heart attack cause eye degeneration and will or can delay in treatment cause a difference?

[ChatterAlly]

The same plaque that causes heart attacks can cause blindness.  I know. It happened to me.  I had experienced a feeling of severe blindess in my eyes one evening and 2 hours later without any symptoms, I lost the vision in the top half of my eye.  I made a doctor's appointment the next morning and it was found that plaque had become lodged in a vessel to my upper right retina.  I am used to it now, but will always be partially blind in that eye.

[ed34]

It is interesting though isn't it. Doctors apparently looked at this for a very long time trying to figure out how this could have happened.

[kenkeith]

Ooops

[kenkeith]

January 20, 2006
Heart Attack Cures Eyesight
Posted by Eric at 12:29 pm. Filed under: Randomly Interesting
Strange stuff.

A 74-year-old woman who had been blind for 25 years awoke in a British hospital after suffering a heart attack and could see again.

The Daily Telegraph newspaper reports she told her husband: “You’ve got older.”

Doctors were at a loss to explain how Joyce Urch, who lived in a world of shadows and near darkness since 1979, had recovered her sight after the heart attack 16 months ago.

[ed34]

There was actually a case where a 74 year old woman had been blind for 25 years and had a heart attack. At the amazement of Doctors her vision returned. Her first words were to her husband when she said "you've got older". Nobody has been able to explain this.
I think blood pressure can be related to degraded eyesight, and stokes/mini strokes, but I don't think a link between heart attacks and eyesight degradation has been found. My eyesight was gradually getting worse before my MI and it didn't degrade at a higher rate after the event.