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1 | Nonchalant Midterm-taker Develops Altered Mental Status (slideshow) | Shira Simon; Bruno Policeni; Matthew Thurtell | A 19 year-old female presented in April 2016 with two weeks of worsening headaches, malaise, left-hand weakness, and confusion. Symptoms started during a trip to Cancun and one week after visiting a friend with mumps. Although she was becoming increasingly lethargic, she refused to seek medical atte... | |
2 | A Par 3 Macular Hole? (Slides) | Archana Srinivasan; Jerald Gong; Mark Moster | A 78-year old woman with 3-week history of sudden onset 'visual blur' OU and difficulty reading was evaluated by her ophthalmologist and suspected to have macular hole secondary to posterior vitreous detachment and vitreomacular traction (VMT). Her past medical history was significant for hypertensi... | |
3 | Just the Two of Us | Dan Milea; Pratik Chougule; Ming Lee | A 63-year-old female patient of Chinese ethnicity was referred for unexplained visual loss in her right eye, discovered incidentally 1 month before presentation. Her past medical history revealed quiescent asthma and a benign cyst in the left lung, excised 27 years earlier. The patient had no vascul... | |
4 | Fooled Thrice | Jonathan Micieli; Hui-Kuo Shu; Alessandra Schmitt; Nancy Newman | A 40-year-old healthy man presented with a one-month history of left ptosis and binocular horizontal diplopia. Examination revealed normal afferent visual function. He had left ptosis and there was limitation of elevation, depression, adduction and a dilated, sluggishly reactive pupil in the left ey... | |
5 | Pseudo-Pseudotumor Cerebri (slideshow) | Valerie Biousse; Jose Velázquez Vega; Amit Saindane; Nancy Newman | A 54-yo man presented with a 10-month history of daily headaches and bilateral disc edema. PMHx was remarkable for uncomplicated type-2 diabetes mellitus, and hypothyroidism. He developed headaches in 07/2014 after being stung by wasps. |