Homocysteinemia as a cause for amaurosis fugax in a patient without an apparent embolic source

Purpose: To report a case with monocular transient vision loss (TVL) associated with Hyperhomocysteinemia. Methods: We present a case with persistent TVL attacks and high level of homocysteine. Results: A 32-year-old male had a history of episodes of recurrent monocular TVL. Extensive ophthalmic, sy...

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Autores principales: Inan, Sibel, Yavas, Guliz, Inan, Umit Ubeyt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Romanian Society of Ophthalmology 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6626925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31334400
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author Inan, Sibel
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description Purpose: To report a case with monocular transient vision loss (TVL) associated with Hyperhomocysteinemia. Methods: We present a case with persistent TVL attacks and high level of homocysteine. Results: A 32-year-old male had a history of episodes of recurrent monocular TVL. Extensive ophthalmic, systemic and laboratory studies were unremarkable with the exception of high plasma homocysteine level. He never experienced TVL during the 36-month follow-up after starting folate, B12 and B6 except for one episode in which he had discontinued the treatment for three months. Conclusion: This case may suggest hyperhomocysteinemia as one of the underlying causes of recurrent attacks of TVL without any known source of emboli.
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spelling pubmed-66269252019-07-22 Homocysteinemia as a cause for amaurosis fugax in a patient without an apparent embolic source Inan, Sibel Yavas, Guliz Inan, Umit Ubeyt Rom J Ophthalmol Case Reports Purpose: To report a case with monocular transient vision loss (TVL) associated with Hyperhomocysteinemia. Methods: We present a case with persistent TVL attacks and high level of homocysteine. Results: A 32-year-old male had a history of episodes of recurrent monocular TVL. Extensive ophthalmic, systemic and laboratory studies were unremarkable with the exception of high plasma homocysteine level. He never experienced TVL during the 36-month follow-up after starting folate, B12 and B6 except for one episode in which he had discontinued the treatment for three months. Conclusion: This case may suggest hyperhomocysteinemia as one of the underlying causes of recurrent attacks of TVL without any known source of emboli. Romanian Society of Ophthalmology 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6626925/ /pubmed/31334400 Text en ©Romanian Society of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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Homocysteinemia as a cause for amaurosis fugax in a patient without an apparent embolic source
title Homocysteinemia as a cause for amaurosis fugax in a patient without an apparent embolic source
title_full Homocysteinemia as a cause for amaurosis fugax in a patient without an apparent embolic source
title_fullStr Homocysteinemia as a cause for amaurosis fugax in a patient without an apparent embolic source
title_full_unstemmed Homocysteinemia as a cause for amaurosis fugax in a patient without an apparent embolic source
title_short Homocysteinemia as a cause for amaurosis fugax in a patient without an apparent embolic source
title_sort homocysteinemia as a cause for amaurosis fugax in a patient without an apparent embolic source
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6626925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31334400
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