Enlarged Blind Spot
At follow up her symptoms had diminished.
Enlarged blind spot. She still complained of the occasional flash in the right eye but the enlarged blind spot had improved. To study the clinical pattern and natural history of patients with the symptom of an enlarged blind spot. A swelling in the optic disc from infection can also cause an enlarged blind spot fletcher 1988.
The presence of an enlarged blind spot and disc hyperemia might suggest papilledema or a temporal defect from a chiasmal lesion. It corresponds to the area where the optic disc is seen on fundoscopy i e. The blind spot is a small area lateral to the centre of the visual field where there is no vision perception.
Acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement is a disease of the outer retina and therefore shares many features with mewds. Twenty one patients were collected from a neuro ophthalmologic practice during the period january 14 1983 to july 1 1996 and four consecutive patients were added from three vitreoretinal practices during the period april 14 1986 to june. An enlarged blind spot is a feature of optic head enlargement e g.
We diagnosed multiple evanescent white dot syndrome mewds and instructed the patient to follow up in one month. The point where the optic nerve joins the retina. A retrospective case series.
Humphrey visual fields analysis showed an enlarged blind spot in the left eye. However this is an unlikely cause as one must be exposed to large amounts of bird droppings to contract it windsor and windsor 2003.
