PURPOSE To report the unusual visual field finding due to a chiasmal neuritis in a 33-year-old female with the diagnosis of optic neuromyelitis optica (Devic's syndrome). METHODS We report a case of a 33 years old female with limb paraesthesias, weakness in the legs, bowel and bladder dysfunction that was referred to the "Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Uni...

background: taking visual acuity is an important part of an eye routine examination. this study was conducted to compare visual acuity measured using an iranian digital tumbling e chart with visual acuity measured using an italian digital tumbling e chart as a familiar foreign chart. materials and methods: this study was carried out on 200 participants (400 eyes; healthy n=40, glaucoma n=40, re...

OBJECTIVE To present treatment coverage rates and risk factors associated with uncorrected refractive error in Australia. METHODS Thirty population clusters were randomly selected from all geographic remoteness strata in Australia to provide samples of 1738 Indigenous Australians aged 40 years and older and 3098 non-Indigenous Australians aged 50 years and older. Presenting visual acuity was ...

CONTEXT With heightened awareness of concussion, there is a need to assess and manage the concussed patient in a consistent manner. Unfortunately, concussion physical examination has not been standardized or supported by evidence. Important questions remain about the physical examination. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Review of ClinicalKey, Cochrane, MEDLINE, and PubMed prior to July 2015 was performe...

Although doctors are trained to classify psychiatric symptoms (for example, as ‘delusions’ or ‘hallucinations’) within a standardised mental state examination, it is likely that some symptoms will defy such classification. Hence, if the mental state examination is not supplemented by patients’ verbatim descriptions of their experiences, then novel symptoms may go unrecognised and potentially un...

Objective: Visual impairment is a common problem in tuberculous meningitis (TBM). Present study has been conducted to evaluate the prevalence of visual impairment at presentation and at 3 months. Methods: Twenty seven consecutive HIV negative patients with TBM were included. Visual acuity, colour vision, field of vision, and visual evoked potentials (VEP) were recorded at baseline and at 3 mont...

purpose: to report a rare case of ciliochoroidal malignant melanoma presenting as a subconjunctival black-colored mass adjacent to the limbus. patient and findings: a 42-year-old woman presented with a subconjunctival black-colored mass adjacent to the limbus in left eye from 2 years ago. the lesion had increased in size during the previous 2 months. funduscopic examination with scleral depress...

purpose: to determine the clinical and paraclinical features of multiple sclerosis (ms) in patients presenting for the first time with optic neuritis. methods:  in this descriptive study, 35 patients with clinical evidence of optic neuritis were enrolled. our evaluation included a neurological examination, visual evoked potentials (vep), brainstem-auditory evoked potentials (baep), and brain mr...

Sir, Very few centers provide specialty treatment services for adolescent drug users in India. When an adolescent presents with chronic drug use, often the resultant psychosocial complications are assessed in detail, however the physical complications (unless gross or with overt manifestation) are often overlooked in general clinical settings. Inhalant abuse is known to be especially more preva...

The purpose of this study was to characterize the severe postoperative irreversible visual loss induced by optic neuropathy in some children with a brain tumor. The computerized database (2003-2008) of a neuro-ophthalmology service of a major pediatric tertiary center was reviewed for all children with severe irreversible visual loss (counting fingers or less) due to brain-tumor-related optic n...