Transient Smartphone “Blindness”

  • Alim-Marvasti A
  • Bi W
  • Mahroo O
  • et al.
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Abstract

Two patients presented with loss of vision after viewing a smartphone screen in bed in the dark. The cause appeared to be differential bleaching of photopigment, with one eye becoming light-adapted while the other eye (blocked by a pillow) became dark-adapted.

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Alim-Marvasti, A., Bi, W., Mahroo, O. A., Barbur, J. L., & Plant, G. T. (2016). Transient Smartphone “Blindness.” New England Journal of Medicine, 374(25), 2502–2504. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc1514294

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