Optic neuropathy in a pregnant patient with antiphospholipid syndrome.

Please cite this article as: Asorey-García A, Santos-Bueso E, Sáenz-Francés F, García-Feijoo J. Neuropatía óptica en gestante con síndrome antifosfolípido. Neurología. 2015;30:518—519. pregnancy loss. The first manifestation of APS can sometimes be neurological, presenting as optic neuropathy, for example. We present the case of a 27-year-old woman (29 weeks pregnant), who visited the emergency department due to a sudden-onset decrease in visual acuity (VA) of the right eye (RE) first noticed 10 days previously. She did not report retro-ocular pain or headache. Nothing in her general medical or obstetric history was relevant to this event (G0P0A0). Visual acuity was 0.1 in the RE and 1.2 in the left (LE). Pupil examination revealed anisocoria with mydriasis and relative afferent pupillary defect in the RE. Fundus examination showed oedematous papilla in the RE, while results for the LE were normal. No alterations in chromatic perception