The Walsh Society Annual Meeting Archives: Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Walsh Society, which is now part of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Association (NANOS) Annual Meeting. Contains records from the first meeting in 1969, through the present.
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A Case of Recurrent Encephalopathy, Seizures, and Retinopathy (Presentation Video) | Ryan Walsh; Michael Stewart; Paul Brazis | A 45-year old male with right hemisphere encephalitis and a Dx of macular degeneration at age 43. Previous history significant for a learning disability and a complex partial seizure disorder diagnosed 20 years earlier subsequently managed with an anti-epileptic. |
| 102 |
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Not a Benign Tumor (Presentation Video) | Hong Jiang; Linda Sternau; Norman Schartz; Byron Lam; Lawrence M. Wong | A 43-year old female with blurred vision OU. Previous history signicant for a 10-year history of recurrent colon cancer Tx antineoplastic agents, pituitary mass, hypopituitarism and diabetes insipidus. |
| 103 |
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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... |
| 104 |
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Spots, Spots Everywhere, And Not A Spot To See | Sarkis M. Nazarian; Kelli Y. Shaon; Kenneth R. Habetz; Ayman Al-Salaimeh; John D. Schwankhaus; Joseph G. Chacko | Additional history revealed that the patient had suffered a tick bite about two weeks prior to the onset of his rash. |
| 105 |
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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... |
| 106 |
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Golden Grapes | Heather E. Moss; Sean Zivin; Amy Lin; Vinay Aakalu; Senad Osmanovic; Omar Al Heeti; Stockton Mayer; Mahesh Patel | A 71 year-old African American woman presented with a painful right retrobulbar optic neuropathy and weight loss. ESR was 74. She was treated with steroids. Temporal artery biopsy did not show arteritis. Nine days later, while on a steroid taper, she developed fevers, worsening right eye vision, pto... |
| 107 |
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Diabetes Does Not Explain It All | Philip M. Skidd; Joseph F. Rizzo; Florian S. Eichler; Dean Cestari | Systemic hypertension, type II diabetes mellitus, hypercholesteremia, anxiety and depression. |
| 108 |
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No Rhabdo? | Mark R. Melson | A 5 year-old girl presented for evaluation of a right orbital mass displacing the globe superiorly. She had a 5 week history of swelling around her right eye. Her pediatrician diagnosed a blocked tear duct and referred her to an ophthalmologist. She failed empiric treatment for orbital cellulitis an... |
| 109 |
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Sacramentum Gladiatorium | Michael Vaphiades; Jennifer Doyle | Medical history includes hypertension and hyperlipidemia. |
| 110 |
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Raise Your Grade Point Average | Hilary M. Grabe; Jeffrey L. Myers; Douglas J. Quint; Victor M. Elner; Jonathan D. Trobe | Two years earlier, he had had persistent hearing loss in the left ear attributed elsewhere to infection. One year later, he developed left facial weakness diagnosed as Bell's palsy, treated with corticosteroids without recovery. A few months later, he became hoarse and had difficulty swallowing. |
| 111 |
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Ain't No Sunshine When You Are Gone! | Veeral S. Shah; Linda Sternau; Michelle Felicella; Sanders Dubovy; Chris Alabiad; Norman J. Schatz; Byron L. Lam | An 18 year-old Latin American female presented with progressive visual loss OD over 6 weeks. She initially had blurry vision and photophobia OD with a central scotoma OD on HVF testing. At that time, examination revealed a right swollen optic nerve with retinal hemorrhages. She was otherwise healthy... |
| 112 |
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Some Orbital Confusion | Steven A. Newman; David T. Bourne | In September 2006 he had been referred for a second opinion regarding a 5 year history of intermittent swelling around the right orbit, worsening over 7 months associated with double vision, and proptosis (C,D). |
| 113 |
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Clues Hidden in the Skin | Janet C. Rucker; Catherine Cho; James Weisfeld-Adams; Scott Brodie | She underwent neurological evaluation at age 32 (neuroimaging, serologies, lumbar puncture, muscle biopsy) with no resultant diagnosis (records unavailable). She required a wheelchair by age 36 and gradually developed slurred speech, cognitive decline, and worsened motor function. Simultaneous with ... |
| 114 |
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Occam's Razor or Gamma Knife? | Kaushal M. Kulkarni; Linda Sternau; Byron L. Lam | Hypertension, end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, and an episode of anterior uveitis in the right eye 10 years earlier. |
| 115 |
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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,... |
| 116 |
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It's Not the Tumor | Courtney E. Francis | A 58 year old woman with a history of metastatic parotid adenocarcinoma presented with bilateral vision loss over 2 months. She had undergone surgical resection of the tumor followed by fractionated external beam radiation with a total of 66.6 Gy 18 months prior to presentation. She was recently fou... |
| 117 |
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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. |
| 118 |
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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... |
| 119 |
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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... |
| 120 |
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Is it a Crime to be Blind? I plead the 4th! | Jasmine Gopwani; Edward Margolin; Tran Le; Wayne Cornblath; Rasmus Kiehl | A 30 year old previously healthy man from Sudan presented to a community hospital with a seizure. MRI revealed a 'right frontal lobe tumor'. Brain biopsy was performed but the pathology findings were inconclusive. Initial interpretation was "brain tissue with increased cellularity consistent with gl... |
| 121 |
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I Can't Stand the Double Vision | Iris Ben Bassat Mizrachi; Ruth Huna-Baron; Rivka Inzelberg; Yonathan Sharabi | A 37 year-old woman was referred to our clinic due to bilateral ptosis and vertical binocular diplopia. She denied diurnal variations, muscle weakness or bulbar symptoms. In the past year she had been suffering from bouts of abdominal pain, diarrhea, and severe weight loss (>40 pounds), and she pres... |
| 122 |
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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. |
| 123 |
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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... |
| 124 |
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A TAAD Bit Unusual | Nisreen K. Mesiwala; Susan T. Stefko | A 12 year-old previously healthy boy presented to the emergency room with a five-day history of progressive frontal headaches and acute onset of horizontal, binocular diplopia on left gaze. He had no significant medical history and his only significant ocular history was mild myopia and X-linked col... |
| 125 |
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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... |