We report a case of snakebite in which envenomation was manifested through impairment of the visual field. The patient, a 46-year-old man, was bitten on the right thumb by Bothrops lanceolatus. Treatment with a specific equine antivenom (Bothrofav) was administered one hour after the bite. With the exception of fang marks, the results of a clinical examination, particularly the neurologic compo...

Thirteen patients with confusional state and cerebral infarction were studied. Seven patients had optic pathway alterations. On computed tomographic scan, 2 patients had multiple infarctions and 10 had single infarctions, predominantly located in the temporo-occipital associative cortex. One patient had a normal scan. Reduction of 'selective attention', 'release' hallucinations, amnesic syndrom...

We studied patient JS, who had a right occipital infarct that encroached on visual areas V1, V2v, and VP. When tested psychophysically, he was very impaired at detecting the direction of motion in random dot displays where a variable proportion of dots moving in one direction (signal) were embedded in masking motion noise (noise dots). The impairment on this motion coherence task was especially...

background: septic intracranial venous thrombosis is a rare vascular disease of the brain with no specific sign or symptom. while urgent treatment will result in complete recovery, delays may cause permanent complications or even death. case report: the patient was a 23-year-old woman who had suffered visual loss, hallucination, and confusion two weeks after undergoing submandibular abscess rem...

A case is presented of cortical blindness in cranial arteritis. A clinical diagnosis at the time of presentation was based on the integrity of the pupillary light reflex and the absence of visually evoked responses. Pathological examination confirmed bilateral occipital infarction. This report stresses the need for recognizing this presentation of cranial arteritis and initiating immediate trea...

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) therapy is being increasingly used in a wide range of neurological conditions. However, treatment is expensive and side effects may be severe. A patient with Miller Fisher syndrome who developed cortical blindness as a consequence of occipital infarction precipitated by IVIg is reported on.

Traumatic brain injury is a common entity. However cerebral infarction in infants is a rare entity while the diagnosis of this pathology in the pediatric population is usually difficult. The mild head trauma is rarely accompanied by intracranial injury and even less, with cerebral infarction. We herein report the first case of cerebral infarction after a mild brain trauma in a 2-year-old Latin-...

Fifty-eight patients with a unilateral infarction in the superficial area supplied by a posterior cerebral artery were followed (mean: 39.6 months). Thirteen (22.4%) developed cortical blindness associated with a delayed contralateral occipital infarction. Advanced age, general vascular risk, a history of strokes, Sylvian border-zone extension of the initial infarct, and an absence of improveme...

Because of the wide spread of magnetic resonance image (MRI), it may be increasing to find a dissecting aneurysm (DA) of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) that causes headache without associated hemorrhage or infarction. Generally, surgical treatment might be considered in cases of DA with hemorrhage. However, the treatment of an unruptured DA with headache or infarction has not b...