Point-of-care Ultrasound Detection of Cataract in a Patient with Vision Loss: A Case Report

BACKGROUND: Point-of-care ocular ultrasound in the emergency department (ED) is an effective tool for promptly evaluating for several vision-threatening etiologies and can be used to identify more slowly progressing etiologies as well, such as cataract formation within the lens. CASE REPORT: A 62-ye...

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Autores principales: Dornhofer, Kyle, Alkhattabi, Marawan, Lahham, Shadi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32926685
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.4.46597
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author Dornhofer, Kyle
Alkhattabi, Marawan
Lahham, Shadi
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description BACKGROUND: Point-of-care ocular ultrasound in the emergency department (ED) is an effective tool for promptly evaluating for several vision-threatening etiologies and can be used to identify more slowly progressing etiologies as well, such as cataract formation within the lens. CASE REPORT: A 62-year-old female presented to the ED with a two-day history of painless vision loss of the left eye as well as reduced vision for the prior 30 days. CONCLUSION: Point-of-care ultrasound was performed and showed calcification of the lens consistent with cataract.
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spelling pubmed-74342862020-08-20 Point-of-care Ultrasound Detection of Cataract in a Patient with Vision Loss: A Case Report Dornhofer, Kyle Alkhattabi, Marawan Lahham, Shadi Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Case Report BACKGROUND: Point-of-care ocular ultrasound in the emergency department (ED) is an effective tool for promptly evaluating for several vision-threatening etiologies and can be used to identify more slowly progressing etiologies as well, such as cataract formation within the lens. CASE REPORT: A 62-year-old female presented to the ED with a two-day history of painless vision loss of the left eye as well as reduced vision for the prior 30 days. CONCLUSION: Point-of-care ultrasound was performed and showed calcification of the lens consistent with cataract. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7434286/ /pubmed/32926685 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.4.46597 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Dornhofer et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Point-of-care Ultrasound Detection of Cataract in a Patient with Vision Loss: A Case Report
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title_fullStr Point-of-care Ultrasound Detection of Cataract in a Patient with Vision Loss: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Point-of-care Ultrasound Detection of Cataract in a Patient with Vision Loss: A Case Report
title_short Point-of-care Ultrasound Detection of Cataract in a Patient with Vision Loss: A Case Report
title_sort point-of-care ultrasound detection of cataract in a patient with vision loss: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32926685
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.4.46597
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