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Visual impairment in hysteria
- Source :
- Documenta Ophthalmologica. 82:369-382
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1992.
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Abstract
- We have reviewed the charts of 45 neuro-ophthamological patients diagnosed with 79 monocular visual field or visual acuity losses secondary to non-organic etiology. Our aim was to determine the percentage of patients that have improvement in vision. As part of the protocol, all patients had magnetic resonance images, pattern visual evoked potentials, and flash electroretinography in addition to complete neuro-ophthalmological examinations. A single physician performed both the initial and follow-up examinations of all patients. Thirty-three percent of these patients had visual field defects only, 62% had both visual field defects and visual acuity defects, and 5% had only visual acuity defects. After organic disease was ruled out, all were given a timetable for recovery and clear reassurance regarding their prognoses for visual recovery. Seventy-eight percent of these patients showed improvement or were normal, while 22% showed no improvement. Younger patients without obvious psychiatric disorder had better prognoses than older patients.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Visual acuity
Adolescent
genetic structures
Eye disease
Visual impairment
Hysteria
Vision Disorders
Visual Acuity
Audiology
Organic disease
Developmental psychology
Vision disorder
Physiology (medical)
Electroretinography
medicine
Humans
Child
Aged
medicine.diagnostic_test
Magnetic resonance imaging
Middle Aged
Prognosis
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
eye diseases
Sensory Systems
Visual field
Ophthalmology
Etiology
Evoked Potentials, Visual
Female
Visual Fields
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732622 and 00124486
- Volume :
- 82
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Documenta Ophthalmologica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4f7c278b97ace44c8255c3c3a694f1c6