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Paula Mata Pieters

Paula had no idea why she was losing vision in her left eye, until an MRI revealed a brain tumor that required immediate surgery.

January 25, 2021
Paula Mata Pieters

Paula Mata Pieters was pregnant when she began losing vision in her left eye. An MRI (magnetic resonance imaging test) showed that she had a meningioma — a type of brain tumor. The pregnancy hormones in her body had caused the tumor to grow at a rapid rate.

“That was the only symptom I had,” Paula says. “I was only blind in one eye, but I could have lost vision in both eyes.”

Caetano Coimbra, MD, Medical Director of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at Medical City Dallas, performed a skull incision on Paula, leaving no visible signs of surgery.

Paula not only recovered the vision in her blind eye, the vision in her other eye improved as well.

Published:
January 25, 2021
Location:
Medical City Dallas

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