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Bee sting optic neuritis. A case report with visual evoked potentials.

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Title Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, March 1991, Volume 11, Issue 1
Date 1991-03
Language eng
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Type Text
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
ARK ark:/87278/s62c245k
Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 225973
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62c245k

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Title Bee sting optic neuritis. A case report with visual evoked potentials.
Creator Song, H.S.; Wray, S.H.
Affiliation Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
Abstract Simultaneous recordings of the pattern visual evoked potential and the pattern electroretinogram were recorded in a case of unilateral optic neuritis following a bee sting on the eye. The patient presented with severe eye pain, apoplectic visual loss, acute optic disc swelling and minimal signs of ocular inflammation and eyelid edema. The vision failed to recover. The electrophysiological recordings initially showed a delay in the P100 wave of the pattern visual evoked potential. On follow-up, a normal latency and amplitude of the P50 wave of the pattern electroretinogram was recorded with the flattening of the N95 component, but the pattern visual evoked potential was absent. The data suggests that the optic nerve was demyelinated acutely, and that subsequently axonal loss and degeneration of retinal ganglion cells occurred.
Subject Adult; Animals; Bees; Electroretinography; Evoked Petentials, Visual; Fundus Oculi; Humans; Insect Bites and Stings; Male; Optic Neuritis; Pattern Recognition, Automated; Visual Acuity
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Format application/pdf
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 225959
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62c245k/225959
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