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A 66-year-old man was seen in the glaucoma clinic at Tufts Medical Center due to visual field changes, referred to neurology and then to neuro-ophthalmology with gradual left-sided peripheral ...
Researchers presented an interesting project at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces: it uses VR and eye tracking to simulate visual deficits such as macular ...
To the Editor: The medical mystery in the October 12 issue1 involved a 31-year-old woman who presented with a sudden onset of an inferonasal visual-field deficit in the left eye. Two days earlier, ...
These findings suggest that an OCTA scan is warranted in patients who have repeatable visual field deficits in the absence of thinning on standard OCT. Which is first, RNFL loss or vasculature loss?
Also, post-treatment perimetry assessments can be used to compare the initial testing to evaluate reversible visual field deficits.
Neuro-ophthalmologic follow-up is essential to track recovery of visual field deficits and overall recovery of damage caused by compression of the optic chiasm by the apoplectic pituitary gland.
Strokes, for example, often leave patients with a visual field deficit, slower reaction times, decreased balance and a loss of physical performance for one half of the body.
Without realising it, I was already involved in low vision rehabilitation through the assessment and intervention relating to visual field deficits following stroke.