optic neuritis/headache

A 56-year-old, previously reported woman with cluster headache-like headache with bouts of unilateral (the side of predominance changing through the years) severe headache had a familial history (three generations) of partial Hageman factor deficiency and bleeding episodes. A giant aneurysm was

OBJECTIVE To report an atypical case of orbital inflammatory pseudotumor associated with optic neuritis revealing Behçet's disease. METHODS A 37-year-old man was worked up for headache and progressive decreased bilateral visual acuity most profound in the left eye. Initial ophthalmologic exam was

A patient with symptomatic trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia (TAC) provides a chance to understand the pathophysiology and anatomic correlates of TAC. A 28-year-old woman experienced intermittent sharp and excruciating pain over her right temporal, ear and neck regions for 3 days. The headaches

We reported two early-childhood cases suffering from acute optic neuritis (ON). Case 1 was a 3-year-old girl, who had a preceding upper respiratory infection, headache, nausea and subsequent sudden visual disturbance. Cranial MRI revealed multiple T2-elongated lesions in the white matter. She showed

Encephalitis has been included in the causes of optic neuritis, but post encephalitic optic neuritis has been rarely reported. Majority of the cases of optic neuritis are either idiopathic or associated with multiple sclerosis, especially in western countries. This is very important in the Asian

A 16-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital in August 23, 1986, for headache, nausea and low grade fever. Marked increases in immunoglobulin indices were found in the cerebrospinal fluid. When she was 13, she was diagnosed as having SLE and lupus nephritis. On September 9, 1986, she complained

We present a case of optic neuritis and myelo-radiculopathy as a late association following Chlamydia psittaci infection. A 45-year-old female patient with a prior history of C psittaci pneumonia and subsequent reactive arthritis presented to the neurology unit with severe headache, constitutional

In Crohn's disease, neurologic complications such as cerebrovascular accident, headache, peripheral neuropathy have been reported sporadically. The pathogenesis of these neurologic complications is still unknown and controversial. We experienced a 22-year-old man, with Crohn's disease accompanied by

Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic disease in which cerebral and eye involvement is neither common nor fully understood. Although it is rarely the cause of pachymeningitis and optic neuritis, rheumatoid arthritis should always be kept in mind in these two conditions. We present a 52-year-old male

Optic neuritis is an acute inflammation of the optic nerve and, in its atypical form, is caused by inflammation of the optic nerve as part of infectious, immune, granulomatous, or contiguity processes. Hymenoptera stings (bees, wasps and ants) have been associated with different clinical

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical characteristics and the visual prognosis of a group of children affected with optic neuritis. METHODS The clinical charts of patients under 15 years of age with clinical criteria of optic neuritis were revised at the Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Pa l