Clinical Indicators of Extracranial Carotid Artery Disease in Patients With Transient Symptoms • The clinical findings in 64 patients with transient symptoms of unilateral carotid system ischemic disease (amaurosis fugax or transient focal cerebral ischemic attacks or both) were reviewed in an effort to determine the value of the neurovascular examination in predicting the presence and extent o...

PURPOSE To derive norms for monocular grating acuity and interocular acuity differences that are appropriate for clinical applications using the acuity card procedure (ACP) and Teller Acuity Cards (TAC). METHODS Monocular acuities were measured in 460 children in 12 age groups between 1 month and 4 years. Inclusion criteria were term birth, good general health and normal development, normal e...

A report is made of the successful use of oral clonidine for proctalgia fugax by the author on himself. The author, a 30 year old otherwise healthy man, has been having attacks of proctalgia fugax for several years. He had hitherto left the condition untreated. Last year, in a severe attack, he tried oral clonidine 150 micrograms twice a day and found it to be dramatically effective. He was com...

Psychological inquiry into humility has advanced considerably over the past decade, yet this literature suffers from 2 notable limitations. First, there is no clear consensus among researchers about what humility is, and conceptualizations vary considerably across studies. Second, researchers have uniformly operationalized humility as a positive, socially desirable construct, while dismissing e...

A 73-year-old white man with pseudophakia experienced repeated bouts of transient visual loss associated with erythropsia and colour desaturation. A diagnosis of atheromatous carotid vascular disease was considered, prompting carotid angiography, during which time the patient experienced transient aphasia. Subsequent examination during an episode of visual loss showed that a spontaneous anterio...

Purpose This report describes a case of amaurosis fugax due to a rare primary cardiac sarcoma. Observations A patient who was recently diagnosed with left atrial pleomorphic sarcoma presented with a chief complaint of multiple episodes of intermittent vision loss in the right eye during the course of radiation therapy. Conclusions and importance The authors postulate emboli from the left at...

A 26-year-old woman was admitted with amaurosis fugax in the left eye and transient aphasia. Diffusionweighted MRI revealed a small infarction in the left insular cortex. Transoral carotid ultrasonography (TOCU)1 demonstrated left ICA dilatation with narrowing of the true lumen and intramural mass (figure 1A), which was consistent with hematoma on T1weighted MRI (figure 1B). Angiography, perfor...

A 60-year-old woman who had experienced two episodes of amaurosis fugax in her right eye presented with vision loss. Two weeks earlier, at a private clinic, she was diagnosed with impending central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) of the right eye and received an intravitreal injection of bevacizumab. Two weeks after this injection she was diagnosed with ischemic CRVO. At 11-weeks post-presentatio...