A Case of Visual Hallucination With Frontal Lobe Infarction in a Patient With Giant Cell Arteritis

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) can produce a variety of visual symptoms. Among these, visual hallucinations are rare and are usually accompanied by visual loss. We encountered a 79-year-old female with GCA who presented with visual hallucinations without visual loss. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of...

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Autores principales: Shimura, Mai, Fujikawa, Hirohisa, Suda, Masei, Muranaka, Kiyoharu, Minoda, Masahiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Family/General Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10412741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37575842
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41659
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author Shimura, Mai
Fujikawa, Hirohisa
Suda, Masei
Muranaka, Kiyoharu
Minoda, Masahiro
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Suda, Masei
Muranaka, Kiyoharu
Minoda, Masahiro
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description Giant cell arteritis (GCA) can produce a variety of visual symptoms. Among these, visual hallucinations are rare and are usually accompanied by visual loss. We encountered a 79-year-old female with GCA who presented with visual hallucinations without visual loss. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head revealed a stroke in the right frontal lobe, probably caused by GCA, resulting in visual hallucinations. Visual hallucinations are not well recognized by clinicians as a presentation of GCA. However, as shown in the present case, visual hallucinations are an important symptom because they are suggestive of cerebral ischemia or visual loss.
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spelling pubmed-104127412023-08-11 A Case of Visual Hallucination With Frontal Lobe Infarction in a Patient With Giant Cell Arteritis Shimura, Mai Fujikawa, Hirohisa Suda, Masei Muranaka, Kiyoharu Minoda, Masahiro Cureus Family/General Practice Giant cell arteritis (GCA) can produce a variety of visual symptoms. Among these, visual hallucinations are rare and are usually accompanied by visual loss. We encountered a 79-year-old female with GCA who presented with visual hallucinations without visual loss. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head revealed a stroke in the right frontal lobe, probably caused by GCA, resulting in visual hallucinations. Visual hallucinations are not well recognized by clinicians as a presentation of GCA. However, as shown in the present case, visual hallucinations are an important symptom because they are suggestive of cerebral ischemia or visual loss. Cureus 2023-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10412741/ /pubmed/37575842 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41659 Text en Copyright © 2023, Shimura et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Family/General Practice
Shimura, Mai
Fujikawa, Hirohisa
Suda, Masei
Muranaka, Kiyoharu
Minoda, Masahiro
A Case of Visual Hallucination With Frontal Lobe Infarction in a Patient With Giant Cell Arteritis
title A Case of Visual Hallucination With Frontal Lobe Infarction in a Patient With Giant Cell Arteritis
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title_fullStr A Case of Visual Hallucination With Frontal Lobe Infarction in a Patient With Giant Cell Arteritis
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Visual Hallucination With Frontal Lobe Infarction in a Patient With Giant Cell Arteritis
title_short A Case of Visual Hallucination With Frontal Lobe Infarction in a Patient With Giant Cell Arteritis
title_sort case of visual hallucination with frontal lobe infarction in a patient with giant cell arteritis
topic Family/General Practice
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10412741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37575842
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41659
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