The intersection of ophthalmology and neurology: Diagnosing acute strokes through visual symptoms
Purpose: To document how acute cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) present first to an ophthalmologist. Methods: Retrospective, observational, unicentric hospital-based study. The electronic medical records of new patients who presented to the Neuro-ophthalmology department of a tertiary eye hospital i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2025-02-01
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| Series: | Indian Journal of Ophthalmology |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/IJO.IJO_2456_23 |
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| Summary: | Purpose:
To document how acute cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) present first to an ophthalmologist.
Methods:
Retrospective, observational, unicentric hospital-based study. The electronic medical records of new patients who presented to the Neuro-ophthalmology department of a tertiary eye hospital in the month of August 2022 were reviewed. Those with symptoms suggestive of an acute stroke requiring urgent neuroimaging were chosen for further study.
Results:
Out of the 710 new patients, 31 had a known CVA and presented with field defects (4.3%). We recognized nine new patients, subsequently diagnosed to have a CVA, initially presenting with ocular symptoms such as homonymous hemianopia in seven cases and two others as transient obscuration of vision and internuclear ophthalmoplegia.
Conclusion:
Posterior circulation strokes commonly present first to an ophthalmologist, the early recognition of which is of utmost importance. |
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| ISSN: | 0301-4738 1998-3689 |