OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of digital pupillometry in the diagnosis of anisocoria related to Horner syndrome in adult patients. DESIGN Retrospective, observational, case control study. METHODS Nineteen patients with unilateral Horner syndrome (Horner group) and age-matched controls of 30 healthy individuals with normal vision and neither optic nerve dysfunction nor pupillary abnorm...

BACKGROUND In critical care units, pupil examination is an important clinical parameter for patient monitoring. Current practice is to use a penlight to observe the pupillary light reflex. The result seems to be a subjective measurement, with low precision and reproducibility. Several quantitative pupillometer devices are now available, although their use is primarily restricted to the research...

Introduction: Herpes zoster ophthalmicus occurs when there is a reactivation of herpes 3 lying latent in the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve. We report a case of an 86 year-old female patient with an orbital cellulitis with post-septal involvement admitted in our departement for topical and intravenous antibiotics. On the fourth day of admission vesicular lesions began to emerge in ...

Introducción y objetivos: la sedación paliativa (SP) se define como administración deliberada de fármacos, en las dosis combinaciones requeridas, para reducir conciencia un paciente con enfermedad avanzada o terminal tanto sea necesario, el fin aliviar uno más síntomas refractarios su consentimiento explícito delegado. La SP tiene lugar manejo agudizados alto grado sufrimiento paciente. El obje...

Introdução: O síndroma de Horner representa um importante desafio na prática clínica, uma vez que pode estar associada a grande variedade etiologias. Trata-se rara, se manifesta classicamente por anisocoria com miose, ptose palpebral e anidrose homolateral devido à perda inervação simpática. Este caso pretende relatar desencadeado após exercício físico demonstrar importância história clínica ex...

Abstract Background Horner syndrome is caused by disruption to any part of the oculosympathetic nerve supply, and classically characterized triad ptosis, miosis, facial anhidrosis. Two cases secondary longus colli edema have previously been reported in literature; however, this first case bilateral asymmetric inflammation causing unilateral syndrome. Case presentation An 18-year-old male was fo...

Case presentation: Female patient, 1 year and 7 months old, previously healthy, presented cervical adenomegaly, fever, periorbital edema after receiving MMR vaccine. She evolved with a deviation of the labial commissure to right, neck stiffness, bilateral edema. On hospital admission, she normal cranial tomography infectious cerebrospinal fluid negative culture. had generalized onset tonic-clon...

Head trauma may lead to damage of soft tissue and bones skull by an external force. The modified Glasgow coma scale (mGCS) is used evaluate the prognosis classify neurological status cats dogs with head trauma. aim this study determine ophtalmic pathologies incidence these as a result in cats. In addition, any possible correlation between intraocular pressure (IOP) mGCS will be investigated tra...