The Relationship between Visual-Evoked Potential and Optic Coherence Tomography and Clinical Findings in Parkinson Patients.

Background: In Parkinson's disease (PD), dopamine deficiency is present not only in the nigrostriatal pathway but also in the retinal and visual pathways. Optic coherence tomography (OCT) can be used as morphological evidence of visual influence from early nonmotor symptoms. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of OCT and visual evoked potentials (VEPs) of eyes with the severity of clinical findings and ocular findings in PD.

Rhabdomyolysis related to dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease.

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).

Acute "upside-down" visual inversion in a patient with multiple sclerosis.

Visual 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.

A case report of bilateral superior altitudinal hemianopia with cerebral infarction.

Background: 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.