purpose: to report a case of anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (aion) after ingestion of tadalafil (a drug for management of erectile dysfunction). patient and findings: a healthy 26-year-old male was referred due to loss of vision and visual field defect in his left eye a few days after using tadalafil. visual loss was progressive during the following days. examination revealed disc swelling ...

this study was intended to investigate the visual field status and its association with other visual parameters in adolescent boys and to compare these outcomes to hearing ones. in a cross-sectional study, visual fields (vf) of 64 adolescent boys with hearing impairments and 68 age-matched boys with normal hearing were evaluated among high school students of tehran, iran in 2013. they all had i...

a 22 year-old woman presented with gradual visual loss in her right eye since 1990. medical and family histories were unremarkable. her visual acuity was 20/80 and 20/20 in right and left eyes respectively. slit lamp examination was quite normal with no relative afferent papillary defect.fundi of both eyes revealed subretinal lesion with optic nerve head involvement and subretinal fluid in papi...

purpose: to present a case of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (pxe) with ocular involvement and visual loss. case report: a 36 year old male presented with severe visual loss since 2 years ago. on funduscopy peau d’orange appearance and angioid streaks were evident. the diagnosis of pxe was confirmed by skin biopsy of papular lesions on the neck. conclusion:  ocular findings may be helpful in the diag...

purpose: to report a case of unilateral severe visual loss and bilateral optic disc cupping secondary to brain metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma patient and findings: a 48 year-old woman presented with severe visual loss of left eye without redness or pain or any systemic findings .clinical findings included decreased visual acuity of left eye to 4 m cf and (+3) positive marcus-gunn reflex ....