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Under Pressure | Nathan H. Kung; Collin M. McClelland; Gregory P. Van Stavern | A 29-year-old woman was referred to neuro-ophthalmology clinic for 1 year of headaches and papilledema discovered 2 months earlier. She complained of recently blurred vision but no positional headache, pulsatile tinnitus, transient visual obscurations, or other neurologic issues. She used no medicat... |
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Who Deserves a Second Chance? | Lina Nagia; Jennifer Doyle; Lanning Kline | An 81-year-old woman presents with a one-month history of blurred vision OS, acutely worse in the past 5 days. She reports pain with left gaze, left sided forehead tenderness and some weight loss. Medical history includes hypertension, borderline diabetes, cerebral vascular accident and basal cell c... |
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A Weak Presentation | Reuben M. Valenzuela; Bradley Katz; Alison Crum; Kathleen B. Digre; Nick Mamalis; Hans C. Davidson; Judith Warner | An 82-year-old right-handed man with myasthenia gravis presented in May 2014 with double vision and right facial numbness and weakness. He was first seen in 1998 with horizontal diplopia. He had an abduction deficit of the right eye, and right nasolabial fold flattening. He was diagnosed with myasth... |
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Three Weeks in Florida | Andrew R. Carey; J. Antonio Bermudez-Magner; Sander R. Dubovy; Norman J. Schatz; Linda L. Sternau; Byron L. Lam | A 36 year-old man presented with severe headaches, bilateral leg numbness, and bilateral decreased vision. He was born in Ecuador where he received BCG vaccination and immigrated to US at age 19. In 2005 he enrolled in nursing school and volunteered in homeless shelters. PPD was positive with a nega... |
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Requiem for a Cabinet Maker | Jennifer I. Doyle; Michael S. Vaphiades; James R. Hackney; Lanning B. Kline; Lina Nagia | A 54-year-old white male presents with 3 weeks of painless horizontal nystagmus and 6 months of left sided forehead numbness. He reports a 20 lbs weight loss. Medical history includes a renal transplant 30 years prior. He takes prednisone 30 mg QOD and azathioprine. Visual acuity is 20/20 OU, color ... |
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Lights Out | John J. Brinkley; John J. Chen; Patricia A. Kirby; Reid A. Longmuir; Matthew J. Thurtell | A 78 year-old man presented with a one-month history of progressive painless binocular vision loss. He had sustained head trauma without loss of consciousness three days prior to the onset of vision loss. On the morning of his presentation to us, he had awoken with complete binocular vision loss and... |
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The Man with No Face (About Face) | Michael Vaphiades; Jennifer Doyle; Lina Nagia; Kevin Bray; Kline Lanning; Glenn Roberson; Adam Quinn; Joel Cure; Katherine Fening | A 61-year-old man presented with one week history of decreased vision OS. Past medical history includes asthma and amblyopia OD, but with complete visual loss OD 18 years prior. He takes no medications. He is retired but worked for 21 years in social science research. The remarkable thing upon meeti... |
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A Shot in the Dark | Joshua Pasol; Ricardo Komotar; Feisal Yamani | A 74 year-old man with a chief complaint of difficulty with night time driving for several years as well as difficulty going from a lighted room to a dark room. PMH of high cholesterol, BPH, hypothyroidism, GERD, glottic squamous cell cancer without recurrence, and a prior history of alcoholism. POH... |
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Some Like it Hot | Ahmara G. Ross; Islam Zaydan; Gabrielle Bonhomme; Ellen Mitchell; Tarek Shazly; Deborah Parrish | A 71 year old Caucasian man with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, Type 2 DM, ESRD status post renal transplant, facial melanoma, currently on ASA for a stable left sided putaminal hemorrhage presented with new right sided ptosis and lower extremity weakness. Brain MRI obtained... |
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Speakeasy | Joseph G. Chacko; Marcus Moody; Harry H. Brown; Sarkis Nazarian | A 64 year-old Caucasian gentleman presented with an unusual complaint. He stated that if he touched the inside of his right cheek with his tongue, he felt a tingly sensation in his R eyebrow. This had started one month ago. He also complained of foreign body sensation and discomfort in the right eye... |
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Shady Double Crosser | Francine Wein | History & Exam A 62-year-old woman presented with a one-month history of severe light sensitivity and headache, and a two week history of diplopia. Her photophobia was severe enough for her to wear sunglasses indoors. Her past medical history was significant for a cholecystectomy and Crohn's disease... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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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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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 ... |
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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. |
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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... |