[Optic ischemic neuropathy in mitral disease].

In the reported case, a 54-year-old woman suffering from the mitral valvular disease with predominance of stenosis, in the stage of total heart insufficiency, appears an ischaemic optic neuropathy at the right eye and, after a year, also at the left eye. The pathogenesis of the ischaemic optic neuropathy is discussed and the role of mitral stenosis and congestive heart failure in the development of bilateral ischaemic optic neuropathy is emphasized.