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It's Deja Vu All Over Again | Aileen A. Antonio-Santos; Yanny L. Phillips; Baha El Khatib; Howard T. Chang; David I. Kaufman; Eric R. Eggenberger | A 51-year-old male with a history of amblyopia OD presented in February 1999 with hyperemia, swelling and periorbital pain of the left eye. Visual acuity (VA) was 20/80 OD and 20/25 OS; color vision was 10/11 Ishihara plates OU, and Goldmann perimetry showed an inferior quadrantanopia OS. There was ... |
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Beware the Trojan Horse | Denize Atan; Nithin Nair; Mrinal Rana; Swarupsinh V. Chavda; Andrew Jacks | Systemic hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and cerebrovascular disease treated with an antiplatelet drug, thiazide diuretic, ACE inhibitor and statin. |
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Beware the Trojan Horse | Denize Atan; Nithin Nair; Mrinal Rana; Swarupsinh V. Chavda; Andrew Jacks | Systemic hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and cerebrovascular disease treated with an antiplatelet drug, thiazide diuretic, ACE inhibitor and statin. |
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Ataxia at the Masquerade Ball | Krista I. Kinard; Alison V. Crum; Judith E. Warner; Bradley J. Katz; Joshua A. Sonnen; Cheryl A. Palmer; Anne G. Osborn; L. Dana DeWitt; Kathleen B. Digre | A 52-year-old right-handed salesman presented in July 2007 with a 5-year history of slowly progressive imbalance. In 2002 he developed difficulty using his eyes together and then imbalance resulting in frequent backward falls. He reported oscillopsia and episodic vertigo. He later developed fatigue,... |
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Blame it on the Pill | Sachin Kedar; Padmaja Sudhakar; Stuart Tobin; William O. Connor; Fernando Decastro | Three months earlier, he had been evaluated for malaise and weight loss and found to have lymphopenia, elevated TSH (20.3) and anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (2874) with normal T3, ESR, B12 and folate. |
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Muscle Bound or Unbound? | Dane A. Breker; Jonathan D. Trobe; Ann A. Little; Sandra I. Camelo-Piragua | A 52 year old former Olympic athlete developed myalgias, cramping, and stiffness in the upper arms, chest, thigh, and calves in 2009 after a blood transfusion for hematochezia attributed to antiplatelet treatment following coronary stenting. Symptoms were worst in the morning, when he could not walk... |
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Renal Red Herring | John J. Chen; John J. Brinkley; Namrata Singh; Amanda C. Maltry; Bruno A. Policeni; Richard C. Allen; Reid A. Longmuir; Matthew J. Thurtell | A 71 year-old Caucasian male with a history of Wegener's granulomatosis presented with vision loss OU and horizontal binocular diplopia. His past medical history was significant for Wegener's granulomatosis, which was diagnosed in 2000 on the basis of a renal biopsy. He was previously treated with v... |
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A Candid Look at a Missed Diagnosis | Edward Margolin; Jasmine Gopwani; Robert Willinsky | She was diagnosed with migraine, stress, and 'drug seeking' presumed from a history of past (intravenous?) heroin use. |
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Almost Catastrophic | Danielle S. Rudich; Samuel Yun; Anne Liebling; Jonathan E. Silbert; Robert L. Lesser | A 36 year-old Caucasian male presented to his ophthalmologist with one month of headache, blurry vision, and intermittent diplopia. The patient denied transient visual obscurations, tinnitus, prior medical problems or use of steroids/Vitamin A/antibiotics. He was 235 pounds and 5'9". Because examina... |
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Innocent until Proven Guilty | Heather E. Moss; Tiffany Stroup; Amy Lin; Oliver Graf; Jeffrey Borgeson; Aaron Halfpenny; Howard Lipton; Tibor Valyi-Nagy | A 31 year-old male experienced right eye blurring and pain. He was diagnosed with optic neuritis and treated with IV steroids. Nine days later he developed headache, worsening vision, speech trouble and right-sided weakness. Two days later he developed low-grade fever and trouble walking. He had NLP... |
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More Than a Cu-bit of Vision Loss | Philip M. Skidd; Rebecca C. Stacy; Waqar Waheed; Mohamed-Ali Babi | A 45 year-old, right-handed, man, presented after awakening with no vision in his left eye. Two days earlier he had experienced a brief episode of binocular horizontal, and then oblique, diplopia. One week prior, he developed left facial numbness and "sinus pain" on the same side; a five day course ... |
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Much-Ado About Acute Vision Loss | Mahsa A. Sohrab; Andrea Birnbaum; Michael Sidiropoulos; Lois Polatnick; Nicholas J. Volpe | Progressive fatigue and right face, arm, and leg pain. |
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Burned by Diplopia | Bonnie M. Keung; Reuben Mari Valenzuela; Meena Gujrati; Jeffrey R. DeSanto; Jorge C. Kattah; John H. Pula | In March 2012 he sustained a concussion and forehead laceration from a motor vehicle accident. In August 2012, he developed painless, binocular, vertical diplopia, which limited him from painting art. In November 2012, his examination showed -2 limitation of up-gaze OD. |
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Burned by Diplopia | Bonnie M. Keung; Reuben Mari Valenzuela; Meena Gujrati; Jeffrey R. DeSanto; Jorge C. Kattah; John H. Pula | In March 2012 he sustained a concussion and forehead laceration from a motor vehicle accident. In August 2012, he developed painless, binocular, vertical diplopia, which limited him from painting art. In November 2012, his examination showed -2 limitation of up-gaze OD. |
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Wear and Tear Vision | Konrad P. Weber; Caterina Schweier; Veronika Kana; Thomas Guggi; Katarzyna Byber; Klara Landau | A 66-year-old woman presented with a four-month history of insidious bilateral visual loss. Ophthalmologic examination revealed visual acuity reduced to finger counting in both eyes. On fundus examination, maculae and optic discs appeared normal. Visual fields showed bilateral central scotoma with m... |
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Wear and Tear Vision | Konrad P. Weber; Caterina Schweier; Veronika Kana; Thomas Guggi; Katarzyna Byber; Klara Landau | A 66-year-old woman presented with a four-month history of insidious bilateral visual loss. Ophthalmologic examination revealed visual acuity reduced to finger counting in both eyes. On fundus examination, maculae and optic discs appeared normal. Visual fields showed bilateral central scotoma with m... |
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A Case of Cotton Wool Spots | Golnaz Moazami; Hermann Schubert; Sampson Jacinda; Riley Claire | A 31 year old Caucasian male was admitted to a local ER after being found unresponsive on a couch at home, incontinent of urine, and having vomited with tongue bruising. He was arousable in the ER but febrile to 102 F with WBC= 19,000. He was loaded with dilantin, and emergency CT showed a left post... |
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It's Deja Vu All Over Again | Aileen A. Antonio-Santos; Yanny L. Phillips; Baha El Khatib; Howard T. Chang; David I. Kaufman; Eric R. Eggenberger | A 51-year-old male with a history of amblyopia OD presented in February 1999 with hyperemia, swelling and periorbital pain of the left eye. Visual acuity (VA) was 20/80 OD and 20/25 OS; color vision was 10/11 Ishihara plates OU, and Goldmann perimetry showed an inferior quadrantanopia OS. There was ... |
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An Ironclad Diagnosis | Marc J. Dinkin; George Parlitsis; Sarju Patel; Alex Merkler; Audrey Schuetz; Cristiano Oliveira | A 43-year-old man with AIDS and a CD4 count of 4, non-compliant with HAART, presented with four days of headache, photophobia and vision loss in his left eye. There was a history of treated syphilis and CMV retinopathy. On neuro- ophthalmological examination, visual acuities were 20/40 OD (formerly ... |
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An Ironclad Diagnosis | Marc J. Dinkin; George Parlitsis; Sarju Patel; Alex Merkler; Audrey Schuetz; Cristiano Oliveira | A 43-year-old man with AIDS and a CD4 count of 4, non-compliant with HAART, presented with four days of headache, photophobia and vision loss in his left eye. There was a history of treated syphilis and CMV retinopathy. On neuro- ophthalmological examination, visual acuities were 20/40 OD (formerly ... |
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Is it Naughty or Nice? | Daniel Gold; Madhura Tamhankar; Laura Balcer; Thomas Coyne; Clyde Markowitz; Steven Galetta | Subjective fever and cold symptoms were noted 3 weeks prior, and she had experienced transient visual obscurations for 2 weeks. |
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Double Vision? - Give Your Head a Shake | Vivek Patel; Danah Albreiki | 3 month history of constant binocular oblique diplopia with mild worsening, progressive disequilibrium, and a wide based gait. No vertigo, loss of coordination, loss of vision or oscillpsia, hearing loss, or tinnitus. No history of cancer, hypothyroidism, GI malabsorption or anemia. Occupational his... |
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A Wolf in Bear's Clothing | Peter W. MacIntosh; Agatha Bogard; Pete Setabutr; Heather E. Moss | An eleven-month-old African-American girl with medical history of reactive airway disease developed a bump and bags under both eyes which her mother attributed to minor trauma. There were no signs of systemic illness. A week later, her mother noticed more prominent right eye edema and a new bump beh... |
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A Difficult Bug to Swallow | Kenneth Lao; Blake A. Isernhagen; R. Michael Siatkowski | Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and a right ventricular thrombus. |
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Deaf and Dizzy. Have We Been Susacked? | Jorge C. Kattah; John H. Pula; Paayal K. Patel; Meena Gujrati; David E. Newman-Toker | Acute vestibular syndrome (AVS) with unsteadiness, nausea, vomiting and decreased hearing. He is diabetic, has arterial hypertension, and was taking losartan, metformin, clopidogrel, and atorvastatin but was not on ototoxic or vasodilators medications. Examination at presentation showed left axial l... |