M Müller, K Wessel, E Mehdorn, D Kömpf, C M Kessler
{"title":"Carotid artery disease in vascular ocular syndromes.","authors":"M Müller, K Wessel, E Mehdorn, D Kömpf, C M Kessler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We prospectively investigated 83 consecutive patients with vascular ocular syndromes: 19 suffered from amaurosis fugax attacks, 23 had occlusions of the central retinal artery or a branch retinal artery occlusion, 26 had a central retinal vein occlusion or a branch retinal vein occlusion, and another 15 exhibited an anterior ischemic optic neuropathy. In 5 patients bilateral symptoms occurred; thus a total of 88 eyes were affected. All patients underwent a neurological examination and ultrasound investigations of the carotid arteries, including continuous wave (cw)-Doppler-sonography and duplex ultrasound. Stenosis of more than 50% diameter reduction and occlusion of the internal carotid artery ipsilateral to the symptomatic eye were significantly more frequent in amaurosis fugax attacks and central or branch retinal artery occlusion than in central or branch retinal vein occlusion or anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (p < .025). Additionally, the analysis of plaque surface and echogenicity of the plaques on the affected side with a high-resolution duplex scan uncovered that ulcerated plaque surfaces and plaques with a heterogeneous echogenicity were found significantly more frequent in the internal carotid arteries of patients with amaurosis fugax attacks and central or branch retinal artery occlusions than in patients with anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (p < .04) or central and branch retinal vein occlusion (p < .025). We conclude that amaurosis fugax attacks and central retinal artery or branch retinal artery occlusions are due to arterio-arterial embolization from ulcerated and heterogeneous carotid artery plaques.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":77200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology","volume":"13 3","pages":"175-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19099689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delayed oculomotor palsy from focal subarachnoid hematoma.","authors":"T Y Shih","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology","volume":"13 3","pages":"218-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19099631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pseudotumor cerebri secondary to dural sinus thrombosis in neurosarcoidosis.","authors":"Y A Akova, T Kansu, S Duman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pseudotumor cerebri as a presenting manifestation of neurosarcoidosis is rare. This case reported herein had pseudotumor cerebri secondary to dural sinus thrombosis as a presenting feature of neurosarcoidosis without known systemic sarcoidosis. Proper systemic steroid therapy resulted in ocular and systemic recovery. Neurosarcoidosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pseudotumor cerebri in patients with unusual neurological findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":77200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology","volume":"13 3","pages":"188-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19099627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R M Siatkowski, N J Schatz, T P Sellitti, S L Galetta, J S Glaser
{"title":"Do thalamic lesions really cause vertical gaze palsies?","authors":"R M Siatkowski, N J Schatz, T P Sellitti, S L Galetta, J S Glaser","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two patients with thalamic infarctions presented with vertical gaze palsies. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated extension of the lesions into the upper midbrain. A common vascular supply to both areas, and the inability of computed tomography (CT) scans to adequately assess posterior fossa structures, necessitate MRI of the mesencephalon in the assessment of all patients with vertical gaze dysfunction. These cases shed further doubt regarding a specific role of the thalamus in control of vertical eye movements.</p>","PeriodicalId":77200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology","volume":"13 3","pages":"190-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19099628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amaurotic mydriasis.","authors":"F E Lepore","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amaurotic mydriasis is characterized by larger than normal pupils in patients with visual loss. In sought to establish whether amaurotic mydriasis can reliably identify different kinds of visual loss and whether this static measurement might prove useful in discerning \"balanced\" bilateral optic neuropathies where no relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) is detected. Patients with binocular pregeniculate visual loss, patients with balanced binocular pregeniculate loss without RAPD, and patients with monocular pregeniculate visual loss had significantly larger pupils than age-matched controls. Although pupils of patients with binocular pregeniculate visual loss (20/50 or better in one or both eyes) were significantly smaller than pupils of age-matched patients with binocular pregeniculate deficits of worse than 20/50 in one or both eyes, no such correlation between Snellen visual acuity and amaurotic mydriasis was found in patients with monocular pregeniculate visual loss. Amaurotic mydriasis is a clinically useful phenomenon that may identify pregeniculate disease in the absence of a RAPD or distinguish pregeniculate from postgeniculate visual loss.</p>","PeriodicalId":77200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology","volume":"13 3","pages":"200-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19099630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ocular pulsation in neurofibromatosis. A clinical/neuroradiologic correlation.","authors":"J L Smith, B C Bowen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 61-year-old woman presented with early cataract formation in an eye which had been pulsating synchronously with her heart beat all of her life. This report presents the first, to our knowledge, three dimensional reconstruction CT images of this form of neurofibromatosis 1. It also documents by MRI and MRA the association of an asymptomatic carotid-ophthalmic junction aneurysm ipsilateral to the sphenoid dysplasia.</p>","PeriodicalId":77200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology","volume":"13 3","pages":"163-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19099687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spontaneous rupture of an intraorbital hydatid cyst. A rare cause of acute visual loss.","authors":"M M Ozek, M N Pamir, A Sav","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A very rare cause of acute visual loss due to the spontaneous rupture of an intraorbital hydatid cyst is presented. Acute onset was thought to be due to volume expansion and inflammatory reaction of orbital structures to ruptured cyst fluid.</p>","PeriodicalId":77200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology","volume":"13 2","pages":"135-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19326726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Superior segmental optic hypoplasia in identical twins.","authors":"M C Brodsky, G T Schroeder, R Ford","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology","volume":"13 2","pages":"152-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19326730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J R Berger, M Flaster, N Schatz, D Droller, P Benedetto, R Poblete, M J Post
{"title":"Cranial neuropathy heralding otherwise occult AIDS-related large cell lymphoma.","authors":"J R Berger, M Flaster, N Schatz, D Droller, P Benedetto, R Poblete, M J Post","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Three HIV-infected patients developed cranial neuropathy as the initial manifestation of an AIDS-related large cell lymphoma. All were homosexual men known to be HIV seropositive for 3 to 4.5 years. At the time of presentation for neurological disease, the CD4 T-lymphocyte count was < 400 cells/mm3 in each. Initial manifestations were retro-orbital headache and oculomotor nerve palsy in two and an abducens nerve palsy in the other. Repeatedly negative CSF cytologies and recovery of the cranial neuropathy obscured the diagnosis. These patients illustrate that cranial neuropathy with HIV infection may herald the presence of an occult large cell lymphoma. Spontaneous or corticosteroid-associated improvement of the cranial neuropathy, absence of abnormalities on brain imaging studies, and negative CSF cytologies do not exclude this diagnosis. We suggest that a diligent and repeated search for lymphoma be considered in HIV-infected patients presenting with cranial neuropathy, including repeated CSF examinations, MRI of brain and spine (T1 and T2) with and without gadolinium enhancement, chest and abdominal CT scans, and bone marrow biopsy.</p>","PeriodicalId":77200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology","volume":"13 2","pages":"113-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19094232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy. Donders Lecture: The Netherlands Ophthalmological Society, Maastricht, Holland, June 19, 1992.","authors":"J D Gass","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This report describes 13 patients, predominantly young women, with a syndrome characterized by rapid loss of one or more large zones of outer retinal function, photopsia, minimal funduscopic changes, and electroretinographic abnormalities affecting one or both eyes. All patients on follow-up examination had persistent visual field defects, and most had chronic photopsia and zones of pigment epithelial atrophy. Evidence is presented that these patients probably represent part of the spectrum of a single disorder that includes the multiple evanescent white-dot syndrome (MEWDS), acute idiopathic blind-spot-enlargement syndrome (AIBSES), acute macular neuroretinopathy (AMN), and the pseudo-presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (P-POHS).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The medical records of these 13 patients and 2 additional patients, who developed, in addition to the features of this syndrome, funduscopic changes typical of MEWDS, AMN, and P-POHS, were reviewed and follow-up obtained.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>These patients had extensive unrewarding medical and neurological investigations because of suspected diagnoses, including central nervous system disorders, cancer-associated retinopathy, retinal vasculitis, diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis, and tapetoretinal degenerations. Although most patients retained good visual acuity, all had permanent visual field loss that in some cases was severe. The cause of the disorder was not determined. No effective treatment was found.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Acute visual loss and photopsia in these patients is probably caused by damage to large zones of the outer retina that appears unaffected ophthalmoscopically. Electroretinography is important in early diagnosis. Future investigations probably will reveal further evidence linking this disorder to MEWDS, AIBSES, AMN, and P-POHS.</p>","PeriodicalId":77200,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology","volume":"13 2","pages":"79-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19326731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}