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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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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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Which One is The Real Zebra | Madhura A. Tamhankar; Julia Kharlip; Robert Lustig; Jon Burnham; Karuna Shekdar; Michele Paessler; Lucy Rorke; Kristina Cole | A 15-year-old male complained of headaches and nausea, two months after appendectomy. |
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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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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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An Ironclad Case of Vision Loss | 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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Growing Suspicion | Angela M. Herro; Norman J. Schatz; Linda L. Sternau; John R. Guy | loss in the right eye for 3 months. On presentation, vision was 4/200 in the right and 20/20 in the left with an afferent pupillary defect on the right. His visual field was full to confrontation but automated perimetry revealed a central scotoma. The remainder of the exam was normal with the except... |
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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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The Relationship Between PDE-5 Inhibitors and NAION | Howard D. Pomeranz, MD | Sildenafil was first synthesized by pharmaceutical chemists working at Pfizer. It was initially studied for use in hypertension and angina. Phase I clinical trials suggested that the drug had little effect on angina but could induce penile erection. Sildenafil (Viagra®) was patented in 1996 and app... |
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Hiding and Out of Sight | Michael L. Morgan; Sumayya J. Almarzouqi; Patricia Chevez-Barrios; Amina I. Malik; Andrew G. Lee | A 75-year-old white woman presented with a history of biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis (GCA) presented with recurrence of severe left sided headaches and left global ophthalmoparesis for 4 days. GCA had been diagnosed 4 months prior by biopsy. Left eye vision loss occurred when an outside physicia... |
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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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I Can't See Straight | Steven A. Newman; T. Ben Ableman | In May of 2014 this 30 year old right handed patient was referred for consultation regarding diplopia and dizziness. The patient relates that she had been told that she had 'tired eyes' as a child. Two and a half years ago she began to have intermittent exodeviation. She was seen locally and diagnos... |
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Star Spangled Banner | Dara M. Bier; Jeffrey P. Greenfield; Marc K. Rosenblum; Joseph Comunale; Cristiano Oliveira; Marc J. Dinkin | A 12-year-old girl with a history of bilateral optic nerve enlargement, enterovirus meningitis, seizures, and bilateral hygromas, presented with acute onset chronic vision loss in her left eye. Two years prior, she presented to an outside hospital with headaches, intermittent speech arrest and right... |
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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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Nobody's Perfect | Alexander Ksendzovsky; Steven A. Newman | In June of 2006 an 8 year old patient was referred for evaluation. Apparently at age 1 ½ she had developed headaches and was found to have a posterior fossa tumor. In El Salvador she was treated with shunting and chemotherapy plus radiation therapy for presumed medulloblastoma. She underwent a shun... |
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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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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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Using Muscle | Nagham Al-Zubidi; John E. Carter; Bundhit Tantawongski; Patricia Chevez-Barrios; Lyndon Tyler; Constance L. Fry | A 30- year-old Saudi female student with no past medical history presented an eight month history of progressive blurred vision primarily at near, anisocoria OS, and periocular discomfort with eye movements. Neuro-Ophthalmologic examination revealed best corrected visual acuity of OD 20/20 and OS 20... |
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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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It's Not Just a FAD (EHR Fatigue Syndrome) | Jacqueline A. Leavitt; John J. Chen; Diva R. Salomao | A 29 year-old female nurse, nine months postpartum, presented with an inability to see her computer well for the past two months. She denied eye pain, diplopia, numbness, tingling or weakness. There were no changes in vision in bright vs. dim lighting. She also had a headache at the back of her head... |