Pearls & Oy-sters: optic tract syndrome.

Pearls and Oy-sters: Reversible iatrogenic Balint syndrome.

Nicte I. Mejia MD* Soojin Park, MD* MingMing Ning, MD Ferdinando S. Buonanno, MD The syndrome of ocular apraxia, simultagnosia, and optic ataxia originally described by Balint in 1909 is classically associated with bilateral parieto-occipital lesions, but can occur with other combinations of bihemispheric lesions.1,2 This syndrome reflects multiple etiologies, most commonly vascular disease, bu...

Pearls & oy-sters: cerebral venous air embolism after central catheter removal: too much air can kill.

Pearls & Oy-sters: cough headache secondary to Chiari malformation type I.

Pearls and oy-sters: ictal syncope in a patient with temporal lobe epilepsy.

PEARLS & OY-STERS: ICTAL SYNCOPE IN A PATIENT WITH TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY Nitin K. Sethi, New York: Varade et al. reported ictal syncope in a patient with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). The MRI revealed a right temporal-occipital cavernous angioma and the seizure showed onset in the right posterior temporal electrode (T6) on EEG, all compatible with a diagnosis of symptomatic localization-relate...

Pearls & Oy-sters: spontaneous venous pulsation and its role in differentiating papilledema from pseudopapilledema.

Gerassimos Lascaratos, MD Suheb Ahmed, MD Stephen A. Madill, FRCOphth Spontaneous venous pulsation (SVP) of the optic disc can be used as a surrogate marker of intracranial pressure (ICP) in patients with discs of normal morphology. The presence of SVP can suggest an ICP within normal limits.1 Based on this premise, SVP is also referred to when differentiating anomalous pseudopapilledematous op...