Ocular Neuromyotonia

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Identifier ocular_neuromyotonia-Behbehani
Title Ocular Neuromyotonia
Creator Raed Behbehani, MD
Affiliation Al-Bahar Ophthalmology Center, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Subject Ocular Neuromyotania
Description Ocular Neuromytonia is a characterised by by paroxysmal tonic contraction of the extraocular muscles supplied by the oculomotor nerve. It is has been reported after cranial radiation therapy, especially to the sellar-parasellar region and from compressive lesions such tumours or aneurysms. The pathophysiology is thought to be by ephaptic transmission (cross talking across damaged axons). This patient has history of midbrain glioma, VP shunt, radiotherapy 20 years prior. She came to me with chronic right third nerve palsy with ptosis. She shows tonic inward eye deviation and upper lid retraction triggered by sustained left gaze. The upper lid retraction and the left inward eye deviation lasts for about 1 minute before going back to normal. Interestingly this was noticed first time on the operating table as she did not have this abnormal eye movement in the clinic.
Date 2016
Language eng
Format video/mp4
Type Image/MovingImage
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management Copyright 2016. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
File Name ocular_neuromyotonia-Behbehani.mp4
ARK ark:/87278/s69d0krb
Setname ehsl_novel_novel
ID 1209847
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69d0krb
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