Neuro-ophthalmology Question of the Week-Transient Monocular Visual Loss

Questions:
1. What is the preferred term for abrupt and temporary visual loss in one eye?
2. What is the most common cause of transient monocular vision loss?
3. What is amaurosis fugax?

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Neuro-ophthalmology Question of the Week: Visual Aura of Migraine

Question: What 3  historical factors can help establish that a transient loss of vision reported to be unilateral by the patient is consistent with the visual aura of migraine?

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Neuro-ophthalmology Question of the Week: Diagnosis of Transient Monocular Vision Loss

Questions: Transient monocular vision loss with:
1. Headache, scalp tenderness, jaw claudication, and diplopia suggest?
2. Eye or brow pain suggests?
3. Neck pain suggests?
4. Ipsilateral Horner syndrome suggests?
5. Simultaneous contralateral hemisensory or motor findings suggests?
6. Presyncope suggests?
7. When moving the eye suggests?
8. Blurry vision when reading suggests?

Neuro-ophthalmology Question of the Week – Vision Loss

Question: Which of the following are correct?
1. If visual acuity can be improved by the patient looking through a pinhole, the problem is refractive or ocular, not neurologic in origin.
2. Reduction in the saturation or brightness of colors may be an early sign of optic nerve disease.
3. A relative afferent pupillary defect ipsilateral to visual loss indicates an optic neuropathy or severe retinal disease (in which case the retina looks abnormal on funduscopic examination).
4. If nonorganic visual loss is suspected, normal stereovision indicates 20/20 visual acuity in both eyes.
5. A positive response to the optokinetic nystagmus stimulus indicates a visual acuity of at least 20/400 in the eye tested.

Neuro-ophthalmology Question of the Week: Electroretinography

Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Full-field ERG is useful in detecting diffuse retinal disease in the setting of generalized or peripheral vision loss.
2. The ERG is invariably severely depressed by the time patients complain of visual loss.
3. In full-field ERG the responses cannot be substantially altered voluntarily.
4. The full-field ERG may be normal in minor or localized retinal disease, particularly maculopathies, even with severe visual acuity loss.
5. Multifocal ERG is extremely helpful in detecting occult focal retinal abnormalities within the macula.
6. Uncooperative patients can alter the responses on a multifocal ERG by not fixating accurately.

Neuro-ophthalmology Question of the Week: Emergency Department Evaluation of Binocular Transient Vision Loss

Question: Describe the appropriate steps to take in evaluating binocular transient vision loss (BTVL) in the emergency department.

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