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Year : 2015  |  Volume : 8  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 211-212

Rapidly reversible visual loss in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: An ophthalmologist's enigma


1 Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Strabismus and Neuro-Ophthalmology, Nimmagada Prasad Children's Eye Care Centre, GMRV Campus, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
2 Department of Retina and Vitreous Surgery, L V Prasad Eye Institute, GMRV Campus, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
3 Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Strabismus and Neuro-Ophthalmology, Jasti V Ramanamma Children's Eye Care Centre, L V Prasad Eye Institute, KAR Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Virender Sachdeva
Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Strabismus and Neuro-ophthalmology, L V Prasad Eye Institute, GMRV Campus, Hanumanthwaka Junction, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0974-620X.169886

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Posterior reversible encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) may present with a sudden onset reversible visual loss under special visual conditions. Such patients' may initially be misdiagnosed as Malingering. Ophthalmologists may be the first physicians to be confronted by such patients. Hence, a knowledge of this condition is vital to diagnosis and management of such conditions.


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