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Bilateral Superior Altitudinal Hemianopsia with Macular Involvement Confirmed by Multifocal Visual Evoked Potential Testing

We report a case of bilateral superior altitudinal hemianopsia (BSAH) secondary to pituitary microadenoma related inferior optic chiasm damage. A 69-year-old-female developed a BSAH with macular involvement that was initially considered as malingering due to the obscurity of this symptom. The patien...

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Autores principales: Anbar, Fabliha, Lerebours, Valerie, Shaikh, Saad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6488337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31058032
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4149
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author Anbar, Fabliha
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description We report a case of bilateral superior altitudinal hemianopsia (BSAH) secondary to pituitary microadenoma related inferior optic chiasm damage. A 69-year-old-female developed a BSAH with macular involvement that was initially considered as malingering due to the obscurity of this symptom. The patient presents with multiple risk factors for ischemic disease to the ocular and occipital vessels, persistent migraine, hypothyroidism, and a stable pituitary microadenoma, yet no evidence of tissue ischemia or infarction was noted on imaging that could account for her visual field defects. A prior history of pituitary microadenoma is presumed to be the etiologic cause although the lesion had regressed by the time of presentation.
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spelling pubmed-64883372019-05-05 Bilateral Superior Altitudinal Hemianopsia with Macular Involvement Confirmed by Multifocal Visual Evoked Potential Testing Anbar, Fabliha Lerebours, Valerie Shaikh, Saad Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism We report a case of bilateral superior altitudinal hemianopsia (BSAH) secondary to pituitary microadenoma related inferior optic chiasm damage. A 69-year-old-female developed a BSAH with macular involvement that was initially considered as malingering due to the obscurity of this symptom. The patient presents with multiple risk factors for ischemic disease to the ocular and occipital vessels, persistent migraine, hypothyroidism, and a stable pituitary microadenoma, yet no evidence of tissue ischemia or infarction was noted on imaging that could account for her visual field defects. A prior history of pituitary microadenoma is presumed to be the etiologic cause although the lesion had regressed by the time of presentation. Cureus 2019-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6488337/ /pubmed/31058032 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4149 Text en Copyright © 2019, Anbar et al. http://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.
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Anbar, Fabliha
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Bilateral Superior Altitudinal Hemianopsia with Macular Involvement Confirmed by Multifocal Visual Evoked Potential Testing
title Bilateral Superior Altitudinal Hemianopsia with Macular Involvement Confirmed by Multifocal Visual Evoked Potential Testing
title_full Bilateral Superior Altitudinal Hemianopsia with Macular Involvement Confirmed by Multifocal Visual Evoked Potential Testing
title_fullStr Bilateral Superior Altitudinal Hemianopsia with Macular Involvement Confirmed by Multifocal Visual Evoked Potential Testing
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Superior Altitudinal Hemianopsia with Macular Involvement Confirmed by Multifocal Visual Evoked Potential Testing
title_short Bilateral Superior Altitudinal Hemianopsia with Macular Involvement Confirmed by Multifocal Visual Evoked Potential Testing
title_sort bilateral superior altitudinal hemianopsia with macular involvement confirmed by multifocal visual evoked potential testing
topic Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6488337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31058032
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4149
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