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Discomfort: why does vision turn black?

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    Corpus
  • 28 January 2015
  • Margitta Seeck
    • HUG
    • Médecine, UNIGE
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After fainting in the middle of a newscast, SRF presenter Cornelia Bösch explained on Twitter that she suddenly saw black, a classic symptom that precedes syncope. But why is vision transiently disrupted?

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