Intraocular lymphoma is a rare disease. We present a patient in which anisocoria led to the diagnosis of iris lymphoma and systemic malignant non Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Ann Med Surg (Lond)
December 2023
Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Tribhuvan University, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Nepal.
Introduction: Arachnoid cysts are intra-arachnoid lesions filled with cerebrospinal fluid. They account for ~1% of all intracranial mass lesions and are non-neoplastic collections of cerebrospinal fluid within an anomalous arachnoid enclosure.
Case Presentation: The authors report a 35-year-old Arabian male who presented to the ER with a history of sudden loss of consciousness, anisocoria, and right hemiparesis.
F1000Res
July 2023
Neurocritical Care Unit, Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, 8091, Switzerland.
In patients with myocardial infarction, atypical symptoms at onset have been demonstrated in women. We aimed to investigate the presence of sex-related differences in symptom presentation in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) to enable earlier diagnosis and treatment. We assessed symptoms on admission to hospital in 343 patients with aSAH in this retrospective single-center cohort-study.
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May 2023
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
Case Presentation: A 22-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a dilated right pupil and mild blurry vision. Physical examination revealed a dilated, sluggishly reactive right pupil, without other ophthalmic or neurologic abnormalities. Neuroimaging was normal.
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July 2023
Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States. Electronic address:
Anisocoria describes asymmetric pupillary diameter, which can result from traumatic, pharmacologic, inflammatory, or ischemic effects on the eye. In many cases, anisocoria represents a normal physiologic variant. Morbidity associated with anisocoria is directly related to the inciting cause and can vary from benign to life-threatening.
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February 2023
David Shane Harper is chief PA in the Department of Surgery at Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Amarillo, Tex.; medical director of the surgical ICU at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, Tex.; a clinical professor at Texas Tech School of Health Professionals in Midland, Tex.; and a tactical medical officer on the Randall County Sheriff's Office SWAT team. At the time this article was written, Sarah Bayless was a medical student at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Tex., and a second lieutenant in the US Army. She now is a first-year emergency medicine resident at Madigan Army Medical Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
This article describes a teenager who developed anisocoria with no obvious neurologic deficits or decline after a motor vehicle accident. The condition resolved over several hours before reappearing in the opposite eye 2 days later. Again no clinical neurologic deficits were noted and the condition resolved after several hours.
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