Publications by authors named "Ana Chinchurreta Capote"

A 43-year-old male with a history of eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis presented with headache and double vision since 48 h. Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis was diagnosed based on nuclear magnetic resonance and comprehensive systemic study findings. Eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis and idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis have been associated with IgG4-related diseases, but this was the first case in which they coexisted in the same patient.

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Vitreous amyloidosis is characterized by progressive loss of vision from amyloid accumulation of deposits on the retina and in the vitreous. Time domain optical coherence tomography (TD-OCT) was used in a case of familial transthyretin vitreous amyloidosis Met30 mutation to image the anterior vitreous deposits, which showed high reflectivity of very different from vitreous found in unaffected individuals. TD-OCT may be a useful adjunctive test to diagnose vitreous amyloidosis when masquerade syndromes are suspected.

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