Acute Idiopathic Blind Spot Enlargement
A 35 year old patient underwent static visual field humphrey 30 2 and multifocal electroretinogram testing at 2 weeks and 4 months after the onset of acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement.
Acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement. Enlarged blind spots are often found in mewds. All patients were women aged between 19 and 53 years. Two patients had previous blind spot enlargement that resolved over several months.
Acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement syndrome. All cases had normal visual acuity and color vision. It has been proposed that acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement is a subset of multiple evanescent white dot syndrome.
Clinical features and differential diagnosis of acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement syndrome authors. 3 10 it is possible that the evanescent white dots of mewds are present but unrecognized or ophthalmoscopically obscure in some or all patients with aibse. Other features include a central or paracentral scotoma.
The scotoma in each patient was absolute measured 15 to 20 in diameter had steep. Acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement syndrome may represent a form of the same disease process. The authors findings suggest that multiple evanescent white dot syndrome and other retinal diseases some not yet identified are subsets of acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement.
Purpose to study the clinical manifestations and the. The authors report four cases of acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement who presented with unilateral temporal scotoma. Overlap among acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement syndrome and other conditions.
To describe the clinical findings in patients with acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement aibse. Introduction acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement aibse syndrome was first reported in 1988 by fletcher et al 1 as a clinical entity presenting with sudden scintillations and a temporal scotoma centered on the blind spot on an otherwise. Hypocyanescent spots typically outnumbering the clinical lesions are seen.
We examined seven patients who had a syndrome of symptomatic monocular blind spot enlargement without optic disc edema. To report the multifocal electroretinographic findings of a patient with acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement syndrome recorded at 2 weeks and 4 months after the onset. Acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement is a disease of the outer retina and therefore shares many features with mewds.
Xiaocui liu bing chen maonian zhang houbin huang 摘要. An enlarged blind spot is typically seen. Even in elderly patients with enlarged blind spots it is important to consider the possibility of acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement syndrome.
Unilateral blind spot enlargement can occur as an isolated entity acute idiopathic blind spot enlarge ment or in association with various chorioretinal diseases.
