Purpose: To evaluate the presence of dry eye and primary Sjögren syndrome (SS) in patients with migraine.
Methods: In total, 46 eyes of 46 patients with migraine (group 1) and 50 eyes of 50 healthy subjects (group 2) were included in this study. Detailed ophthalmologic, neurologic and rheumatologic examination were performed on all participants.
Rhabdomyolysis is a life threatening syndrome. It accounts for an estimated 8% to 15% of cases of acute renal failure and is associated with a mortality rate of 5%. In movement disorders, various causes of rhabdomyolysis have been reported including status dystonicus, myoclonus, generalized chorea and parkinsonism-hyperprexia syndrome in Parkinson's disease (PD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVisual and oculomotor signs and symptoms are common and well defined in patients with multiple sclerosis. On the other hand, the phenomenon of "upside-down" reversal of vision is very rare and thus not well known. The physiopathology of this phenomenon also has not been well understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A visual field defect is the most important neurologic defect in occipital lobe infarcts. There are only sporadic case reports of altitudinal hemianopia in the published data. We report a patient with bilateral superior altitudinal hemianopia.
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