| Identifier |
walsh_1988_s1_c1 |
| Title |
An Adolescent with Bilateral Visual Loss |
| Creator |
Warren L. Felton III, MD; Robert T. Leshner, MD; Nitya R. Ghatak, MD; Anne C. Price, MD |
| Affiliation |
(WLF) (RTL) (NRG) (ACP) Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA |
| Subject |
Encephalomyelitis, Acute Disseminated; Central Nervous System; Hemianopsia |
| History |
A 15-year old male with headache and binocular loss of vision over a 2-week period. Symptoms preceded by flu-like syndrome of fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cervical adenopathy and orthostatic light-headedness. |
| Pathology |
Demyelination with reactive astrocytes, macrophage infiltration, oligodendroglial proliferation, and remyelination. |
| Disease/Diagnosis |
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis |
| Clinical |
VA: Hand motion OU; Absent color vision; Highly-constricted visual fields |
| Presenting Symptom |
Headache; Progressive binocular visual loss; Absent color vision |
| Treatment |
Steroids |
| Date |
1988 |
| References |
1. Atlas SW, Grossman RI, Goldberg HI, Hockney DB, Bilaniuk LT, Zimmerman RA. MR diagnosis of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Journal of Computed Assisted Tomography. 10 (5): 798-801, 1986. 2. Dunn V, Bale BF, Zimmerman RA, Perdue Z, Bell WE. MRI in children with post-infectious disseminated encephalomyelitis. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 4 (1): 25-32, 1986. 3. Herndon RM, Rudick RA. Multiple Sclerosis and related conditions, in Clinical Neurology. Baker AB and Joynt RJ (eds) Vol 3 (33) Hagerstown, MD, Harper and Row, 1987, 46-61. 4. Johnson Rt, Griffen DE, Gendelman HE. Postinfectious encephalomyelitis. Seminars in Neurology. 5: 180-184, 1985. 5. Ludwin SK. Central nervous system demyelination and remyelination in the mouse. An ultrastructural study of cuprizone therapy. Laboratory Investigation. 39 (6): 597-612, 1978. 6. Lukes SA, Norman D. Computed tomography in acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Annals of Neurology. 13: 567-572, 1983. 7. Murphy J. Spontaneous infection or vaccination as the cause of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Neuroepidemiology. 4 (3): 138-145, 1985. 8. Pasternak JR, DeVivo DC, Prensky AL. Steroid-responsive encephalomyelitis in childhood. Neurology 30: 481-486, 1980. 9. Raine CS, Scheinberg L, Waltz JM. Multiple sclerosis. Oligodengliocyte survival and proliferation in an active established lesion. Laboratory Investigation. 45 (6): 534-546, 1981. 10. Sriram S and Steinman L. Postinfectious and postvaccinia! Neurology Clinics. 2 (2): 341-353, 1984. |
| Language |
eng |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Type |
Text |
| Relation is Part of |
1988 Walsh Session |
| Collection |
Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Walsh Session Annual Meeting Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/Walsh/ |
| Publisher |
North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society |
| Holding Institution |
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah |
| Rights Management |
Copyright 2008. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6pr7zqz |
| Setname |
ehsl_novel_fbw |
| ID |
178092 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pr7zqz |
