Neurology® Clinical Practice 2010;75(Suppl 1):S33–S38 Coma resulting from brain injury or illness usually is a transient state. Within a few weeks, patients in coma either recover awareness, die, or evolve to an eyes-open state of impaired responsiveness such as the vegetative or minimally conscious state. These disorders of consciousness can be transient stages during spontaneous recovery from...

A 3-year-old girl presents with bilateral eye pain. The history of the complaint began 3 weeks earlier with headache, photophobia, and intermittent eye pain. During this time, no erythema or discharge from the eyes is noted and no other symptoms reported. Her medical history is positive for multiple parental-diagnosed allergies and chemical sensitivities, resulting in behavioral problems, frequ...

“A young woman thus afflicted, her clothes scarcely hanging together on her anatomy, her pulse slow and slack, her temperature two degrees below the normal mean, her bowels closed, her hair like that of a corpse—dry and lustreless, her face and limbs ashy and cold, her hollow eyes the only vivid thing about her—this wan creature whose daily food might lie on a crown piece, will be busy with mot...

OBJECTIVE We describe a case of Wernicke's encephalopathy associated with visual loss that was caused by hyperemesis gravidarum. METHODS A 25 year old lady in her 20th week of her pregnancy consulted us. She had history of nausea and vomiting for 3 months with resultant weight loss. She now presented with sub-acute onset of visual loss in both her eyes, and gait disturbance with unsteadiness....

our city's slums. A fire, unusual in its intensity, lit her brown eyes? unusual, even for one of her race. Her face was a narrow oval, her features classically perfect, her skin a fine transparent brown through which burned an enchanting glow; her hair, coal black and shining with a luster that 110 hair oil could impart, was drawn back from a low, smooth forehead. Her slender figure had a willo...

A familiar feature in the eye hospitals of the Mediterranean littoral is the statue or picture of St. Lucia of Syracuse, holding her eyes on a plate. This stylized portrayal dating back to the 12th century is based on the legend that " when pestered by a would-be suitor she performed an auto-evulsion of her eyes and sent them to him "-a literal translation into action of St. Matthew, chapter 18...

Case Report A married woman, 52 years old, first seen September 1, 1948, was complaining of epiphora and a slight irritation of both eyes, particularly the right, with some photophobia. The illness was of some three months' duration, though she said she had had recurrent attacks of " sore eyes " for many years. The present attack seemed to have started after a long traip journey. The visual acu...

A young mother catches her nine-month-old infant's gaze, smiles atl him, and brings her hands slowly up and together to cover her eyes. "Uphi? Uphi?" ("Where? Where?") she asks brightly, with high ris­ ing pitch. The baby stares transfIxed at his mother's hands, a small smile of anticipation beginning to spread on his face as the sus­ pense builds over three seconds. "Na-a-a-a-a-n hut" ("Here!"...