Publications by authors named "Alvaro Jose Mejia-Vergara"
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- The study applied the 2022 international consensus criteria for optic neuritis (ICON) to 160 patients with acute optic neuritis to assess its effectiveness in classification.
- About 50% of the patients were classified as definite optic neuritis, while 43% were not classified as having ON, mainly due to the absence of critical symptoms like relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) and dyschromatopsia.
- The adjusted criteria led to a higher classification of 79% of patients as having optic neuritis, highlighting the importance of thorough examinations for accurate diagnosis.*
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- Optic neuritis (ON) often signals the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS) and other related disorders, with high-dose corticosteroids recommended for treatment but not adequately studied regarding timing and patient antibodies.
- The Acute Optic Neuritis Network (ACON) aims to investigate how the timing of corticosteroid treatment affects visual outcomes 6 months post-ON onset by enrolling patients who present within 30 days of initial symptoms.
- The study will collect extensive data on various ON subtypes and factors like visual acuity, imaging results, and patient-reported outcomes from 28 hospitals globally, targeting a recruitment of 200 patients across different ON classifications.
Styloidogenic jugular venous compression syndrome has been recently described as a new cause of idiopathic intracranial hypertension. We present a 69-year-old patient, without other relevant medical history, presenting with 3 years of positional headache associated with decreased vision when reading and while turning her head to the right or left. She also reported pulsatile low-frequency tinnitus.
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