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.
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.