Multiple concomitant cranial nerve palsies secondary to preeclampsia.

A 32-year-old primigravid woman developed pre-eclampsia after delivery of twins along with left fifth, sixth, and seventh cranial neuropathies. She also had evidence of hepatic and renal involvement. Results of patient evaluation were otherwise unremarkable, and the palsies completely resolved over 3 months after treatment with valacyclovir and systemic corticosteroids.

Multiple brain infarcts after orbital inflammation.

A 75-year-old woman developed trigeminal varicella-zoster virus infection complicated by ophthalmoplegia, and visual loss followed by recurrent cerebral infarctions involving small and large intracranial arteries. Medical therapy improved her ophthalmoplegia, but she developed a right hemiparesis and aphasia.

Clinicopathologic correlations in giant cell arteritis: a retrospective study of 107 cases.

Objective: To correlate the pathologic findings of temporal artery biopsies in patients clinically defined as positive, presumed, or negative for giant cell arteritis (GCA).

Design: Retrospective case series.

Participants And Controls: Patients evaluated for GCA.

A case of acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy with recurrent stroke.

A 43-year-old man who had visual loss from acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) developed a right middle cerebral artery territory infarction a few weeks after the visual loss occurred and shortly after corticosteroid therapy was tapered. He was then treated continuously with oral low-dose prednisone and cyclophosphamide but presented with recurrent cerebral infarction 6 months later, shortly after cyclophosphamide was replaced with azathioprine. Neurologic complications of APMPPE are exceedingly rare, with only 18 other well-documented cases of APMPPE in the English and French literature.

Ischemic optic neuropathies.

Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) is the most common cause of acute optic neuropathy after age 50, but may also occur in younger patients. The diagnosis is clinical and includes painless visual loss associated with a relative afferent pupillary defect and disc edema. In almost all cases, there is an underlying crowded optic nerve with a small cup-to-disc ratio.

Familial cold-induced transient diplopia.

Background: The major precipitants of intermittent diplopia secondary to a phoria breakdown include fatigue and illness.

Purpose: To describe cold-induced vertical diplopia in a mother and daughter.

Methods: Retrospective report.

Using the CanMEDS roles when interviewing for an ophthalmology residency program.

Background: To improve the admissions process for the Université de Montréal (UdeM) ophthalmology residency program, the interview structure was modified to encompass the seven CanMEDS roles introduced by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC). These roles include an applicant's abilities as a communicator, collaborator, manager, health advocate, professional, scholar, and medical expert.

Methods: In this retrospective pilot study, the records of all applicants were reviewed by 8 members of the admissions committee, with a high intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.