A 13-year old female with a perceived whiteness affecting her right field of vision. Previous history significant for seizure-like spikes affecting sleep and ventricular and atrial septal defects, the latter of which, surgically repaired.
Pathology
Calcified cotton Gossypium hirsutum pledgets at the base of the mitral valve.
Disease/Diagnosis
Recurrent fibrinous retinal emboli OD, secondary to endocarditis from infected retained foreign material from prior cardiac surgery
Clinical
VA: 20/10 OU; Full visual field OS; Interior visual field defect OD
Presenting Symptom
Transient loss of vision OD
Neuroimaging
CT; MRI
Treatment
Surgery; IV Anti-bacterial agents
Date
2011-02
References
N/A
Language
eng
Format
video/mp4
Type
Image/MovingImage
Source
43rd Annual Frank Walsh Society Meeting
Relation is Part of
NANOS Annual Meeting Frank B. Walsh Sessions; 2011
