More than It Meets the Eye! Vision Loss as a Presenting Symptom of von Hippel–Lindau Disease

Optic neuritis has many mimics. Careful history and fundus examination are paramount in making the correct diagnosis. Here we present a case of bilateral vision loss in a 15-year-old male who subsequently developed hypertensive crises. Subsequent evaluation showed pheochromocytoma and genetic screen...

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Autores principales: Nair, Aditya V, Vijayaraghavan, Asish, Alexander, Pullumpallil T, Mani, Arun M, Giridhar, Divya, Mathew, Vivek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7847098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33531956
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_24_20
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author Nair, Aditya V
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description Optic neuritis has many mimics. Careful history and fundus examination are paramount in making the correct diagnosis. Here we present a case of bilateral vision loss in a 15-year-old male who subsequently developed hypertensive crises. Subsequent evaluation showed pheochromocytoma and genetic screening confirmed Von Hippel–Lindau disease.
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spelling pubmed-78470982021-02-01 More than It Meets the Eye! Vision Loss as a Presenting Symptom of von Hippel–Lindau Disease Nair, Aditya V Vijayaraghavan, Asish Alexander, Pullumpallil T Mani, Arun M Giridhar, Divya Mathew, Vivek J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Optic neuritis has many mimics. Careful history and fundus examination are paramount in making the correct diagnosis. Here we present a case of bilateral vision loss in a 15-year-old male who subsequently developed hypertensive crises. Subsequent evaluation showed pheochromocytoma and genetic screening confirmed Von Hippel–Lindau disease. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7847098/ /pubmed/33531956 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_24_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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