Does methanol poisoning require ophthalmic investigation?
2 February 2024
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Methanol poisoning, acute poisoning, case series, ocular findings, outbreak
The authors report a case series of 21 patients (41 eyes) diagnosed with acute methanol poisoning following an outbreak in Tunisia in 2020. All patients underwent a complete ophthalmological examination including visual fields, colour vision test and optical coherence tomography...
Visual snow syndrome: a review
11 January 2024
| Ivan Yip
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
Visual snow syndrome (VSS) is a neurological condition characterised by visual phenomena described as dots moving across the visual field. Other visual symptoms can take the form of palinopsia, entopic phenomena, photophobia and nyctalopia. Tinnitus and migraine can be commonly...
How common are ocular motor cranial nerve palsies following TBI?
4 December 2023
| Lauren R Hepworth
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
This retrospective cohort study aimed to report the incidence of ocular cranial nerve palsy as a result of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Patients were identified using an insurance database using codes from the International Classification of Disease 9th and 10th...
Should we be looking for anemia in the presence of papilloedema?
4 December 2023
| Lauren R Hepworth
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
The authors present a retrospective case notes review of patients diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) presenting to a tertiary neuro-ophthalmology clinic over a 32-month period. The IIH group were age and sex matched with other patients attending the clinic...
Aquaporin-4 antibody testing in isolate optic neuritis
1 December 2023
| Lauren R Hepworth
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
The authors present a retrospective case review of first presentation isolated cases of optic neuritis tested for aquaporin-4 antibody across two centres over a nine-year period. Exclusion criteria included known diagnosis or other manifestations of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. Two...
Case reports of neuro-visual consequences of mild COVID-19 in children
31 October 2023
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
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COVID-19, Neurovisual manifestations, neuro-COVID19, opthalmoplegia, paediatric ophthalmology
Neuro-visual involvement has been reported in numerous patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 disease, mainly among adult patients. In children, such involvement has been reported in rare cases, often in those presenting with severe forms of COVID-19. The aim of this work...
Using a tumour registry to investigate optic nerve gliomas
31 October 2023
| Lauren R Hepworth
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
This study is a retrospective comparative analysis. Patients with optic nerve glioma and pilocytic astrocytoma were identified through the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registry covering a 42-year period using standardised codes. The following data was extracted: basic...
Assessing possibility of deferring lumbar puncture in mild idiopathic intracranial hypertension
4 October 2023
| Lauren R Hepworth
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
This was a retrospective review of patients consecutively presenting with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) to a tertiary neuro-ophthalmology clinic without a lumbar puncture (LP) over an eight-year period. Inclusion criteria included true optic disc oedema, retinal nerve layer thickness ≤300µm,...
Higher risk of poor functional outcome in the presence of visual deficits post-stroke
4 October 2023
| Lauren R Hepworth
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
The authors present a retrospective case review with the aim of reporting the disability outcomes of individuals 90-days post stroke with and without visual deficits. The Houston Methodist Hospital Outcomes-based Prospective Endpoints in Stroke (HOPES) Registry was used as the...
Narrative review of idiopathic intracranial hypertension in children / adolescents
3 October 2023
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Adolescent, acetazolamide, intracranial pressure, paediatrics, papilloedema, pseudotumour cerebri
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) affects both children and adults. Whilst the majority of IIH is mainly seen amongst adults, it also affects children. There are currently no clinical trials in IIH for those who are adolescents or children. The aims...
Agreeing terminology for non-classic visual field abnormalities
3 October 2023
| Lauren R Hepworth
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
The authors present a prospective survey of neuro-ophthalmologists. The survey comprised of 10 visual fields. The selection of visual fields for the survey aimed for variety and excluded classic neuro-ophthalmology visual field defects, e.g. hemianopia, nasal step. The survey was...
Rare presentation of giant cell arteritis in Chinese subjects
1 September 2023
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy, Chinese, central retinal artery occlusion, Giant cell arteritis, ocular ischaemic syndrome, posterior ischaemic optic neuropathy
Only a few case reports of biopsy-proven GCA (BpGCA)-associated vision loss in Chinese subjects have been published. This paper presents three elderly Chinese subjects with BpGCA who presented with vision loss. A search of the literature was also conducted to...
