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Sixth Nerve Palsy (sixth + nerve_palsy)
Selected AbstractsAdult-Onset Ophthalmoplegic Migraine with Recurrent Sixth Nerve Palsy: A Case ReportHEADACHE, Issue 10 2006Marco Mucchiut MD We describe a patient with ophthalmoplegic migraine and left sixth nerve palsy, in whom disease's onset occurred at middle age. [source] 4344: Sixth nerve palsy: who needs a workup, who needs a scan?ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA, Issue 2010V PURVIN Purpose To aid the clinician in the management of patients with sixth nerve palsy. Methods The yield of various diagnostic for sixth nerve and other cranial nerve palsies will be reviewed. Attention will focus on risk factors that predict a positive result on diagnostic testing, particularly neuroimaging. Results Most patients can be assigned a relative risk of harboring an underlying disease as the cause of their sixth nerve palsy but some will be missed. In most cases, a delayed diagnosis does not alter the outcome. Conclusion The decision whether to image a patient with a sixth nerve palsy remains controversial and must be individualized. [source] Adult-Onset Ophthalmoplegic Migraine with Recurrent Sixth Nerve Palsy: A Case ReportHEADACHE, Issue 10 2006Marco Mucchiut MD We describe a patient with ophthalmoplegic migraine and left sixth nerve palsy, in whom disease's onset occurred at middle age. [source] Intracranial Vasculitis and Multiple Abscesses in a Pregnant WomanJOURNAL OF NEUROIMAGING, Issue 3 2001Mutlu Cihangiroglu ABSTRACT Cerebral vasculitis is an unusual disorder with many causes. Infectious causes of cerebral vasculitis are predominantly bacterial or viral in nature. Purulent bacterial vasculitis is most often a complication of severe bacterial meningitis. The patient is a 25-year-old African American female, 25 weeks pregnant, who presented to the neurology service after a consult and referral from an outside hospital. She had a 1-month history of right sixth nerve palsy. Initial workup included a negative lumber puncture and a noninfused magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Three days later, the patient developed right-sided migraine headaches and right third nerve palsy. The angiogram revealed diffuse irregularity and narrowing of the petrous, cavernous, and supraclinoid portions of the internal carotid and right middle cerebral arteries. Shortly thereafter, an MRI examination revealed diffuse leptomeningeal enhancement and abscess and a right parietal subdural empyema. Infectious vasculitis secondary to purulent meningitis has a rapidly progressive course and presents with cranial nerve palsy with involvement of the cavernous sinus. Although the association of this disease with pregnancy has not been established, it should be recognized that the early imaging studies may be negative or discordant and follow-up imaging might be necessary. [source] Acitretin and sixth nerve palsy: authors' replyJOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY & VENEREOLOGY, Issue 8 2008J-P Arnault No abstract is available for this article. [source] Acitretin and sixth nerve palsyJOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY & VENEREOLOGY, Issue 9 2007J-P Arnault [source] 4344: Sixth nerve palsy: who needs a workup, who needs a scan?ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA, Issue 2010V PURVIN Purpose To aid the clinician in the management of patients with sixth nerve palsy. Methods The yield of various diagnostic for sixth nerve and other cranial nerve palsies will be reviewed. Attention will focus on risk factors that predict a positive result on diagnostic testing, particularly neuroimaging. Results Most patients can be assigned a relative risk of harboring an underlying disease as the cause of their sixth nerve palsy but some will be missed. In most cases, a delayed diagnosis does not alter the outcome. Conclusion The decision whether to image a patient with a sixth nerve palsy remains controversial and must be individualized. [source] | ||||||||||