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At this junction….

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Warwick, AM; Gospe, SM; Chen, JJ
Published in: Surv Ophthalmol
2022

An 81-year-old woman developed painful vision loss to hand motions in the right eye over a several-day period. Dilated fundus examination revealed no acute pathology, but automated perimetry showed a superotemporal visual field defect in the asymptomatic left eye, suggestive of a junctional defect. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated enhancement of the right optic nerve extending to its junction with the optic chiasm. The patient's vision failed to improve with intravenous corticosteroids, but demonstrated significant improvement with therapeutic plasma exchange. She was subsequently found to be seropositive for aquaporin-4 autoantibodies, confirming the diagnosis of neuromyelitis optic spectrum disorder.

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Surv Ophthalmol

DOI

EISSN

1879-3304

Publication Date

2022

Volume

67

Issue

6

Start / End Page

1711 / 1716

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Optic Neuritis
  • Optic Nerve
  • Ophthalmology & Optometry
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Autoantibodies
  • Aquaporin 4
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones
  • 3212 Ophthalmology and optometry
 

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Warwick, A. M., Gospe, S. M., & Chen, J. J. (2022). At this junction…. Surv Ophthalmol, 67(6), 1711–1716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.survophthal.2021.08.001
Warwick, Alexander M., Sidney M. Gospe, and John J. Chen. “At this junction….Surv Ophthalmol 67, no. 6 (2022): 1711–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.survophthal.2021.08.001.
Warwick AM, Gospe SM, Chen JJ. At this junction…. Surv Ophthalmol. 2022;67(6):1711–6.
Warwick, Alexander M., et al. “At this junction….Surv Ophthalmol, vol. 67, no. 6, 2022, pp. 1711–16. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.survophthal.2021.08.001.
Warwick AM, Gospe SM, Chen JJ. At this junction…. Surv Ophthalmol. 2022;67(6):1711–1716.
Journal cover image

Published In

Surv Ophthalmol

DOI

EISSN

1879-3304

Publication Date

2022

Volume

67

Issue

6

Start / End Page

1711 / 1716

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Optic Neuritis
  • Optic Nerve
  • Ophthalmology & Optometry
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Autoantibodies
  • Aquaporin 4
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones
  • 3212 Ophthalmology and optometry