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Clinical evaluation of visual loss relies on thorough history and examination to guide further tests. In this article, we provide a practical overview of visual loss assessment for general physicians. KEYWORDS: vision, visual loss, retina, optic neuropathy.
4 kwi 2023 · Sudden visual loss is a common complaint with variable presentations among patients of different ages. Some patients describe their symptoms as a gradually descending gray-black curtain or as...
2 lip 2019 · Sudden visual loss, whether unilateral or bilateral, is an ophthalmic emergency that necessitates a history including the patient’s age, time course, laterality, character of the symptoms, associated symptoms, prior ocular history, and concurrent medical conditions.
Signs and Symptoms. Sudden vision loss is vision loss that occurs over a period of a few seconds or minutes to a few days. Vision may become blurry or cloudy, completely absent, or affected by flashing lights or specks in the visual field called floaters.
The evaluation of a patient with acute monocular visual loss begins with a careful history. Details from the patient's description of visual symptoms may offer a preliminary suggestion of whether visual loss results from ocular or optic nerve pathology.
10 mar 2017 · Medically unexplained visual loss (MUVL) describes visual loss or visual symptoms in the absence of any medically detectable eye, visual pathway, or brain condition. It is classified as a conversion disorder, in DSM-5, that is, a functional neurological symptom disorder resulting in loss of function.
15 gru 2021 · This article focuses on the emergency department (ED) management of adult patients presenting with spontaneous (not traumatic or postsurgical), acute-onset (minutes to days), isolated (no other obvious neurological symptoms) visual loss. Acute visual loss may be transient or persistent.
