The patient is brought to the emergency department (ED) with sudden onset blindness and deafness. The patient is being guided in by his wife but is walking well. The nurse suspects the patient is experiencing which condition?

Occlusion of the posterior cerebral artery. The posterior cerebral artery supplies the occipital lobe and temporal lobe. An occlusion of this artery may lead to sudden onset blindness and deafness. Embolic blockage of the right carotid artery would have far more global symptoms than an inability to see and hear. A ruptured aneurysm in the anterior cerebral artery would lead to hemiplegia. A TIA of the middle cerebral artery would present with hemiplegia and aphasia.

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