A woman who had to have stents implanted in her brain due to a "mystery illness" permanently lost vision in her right eye after the stents "choked out" her optic nerve. Chandler Plante, 23, suffered a stroke in March 2021 and lost all vision in her right eye eight months later. While the vision loss wasn't caused by the stroke, it happened as a result of her treatment.
She hasn't received any official diagnosis for her ongoing health problems - which include frequent strokes, head and face inflammation. Her doctors have speculated it could be down to an autoimmune condition - even a "really severe" version of long covid.
She's been through multiple rounds of radiation, courses of steroids and chemo drugs - and will need to take aspirin daily for the rest of her life to prevent the strokes from coming back. In July 2021, Chandler had coronary stents implanted into her brain. Her arteries - which are typically meant to be 4mm wide, were measuring at just 0.5mm.
