Not just any headache

A 40-year-old man with a history of traumatic retinal detachment in the left eye treated with scleral buckle and migraine with aura presented to clinic for persistent blurry vision of the right eye following an episode of migraine with aura. The patient had experienced migraines with visual auras starting as a teenager, which normally resolve within an hour except for the most recent episode. Humphrey visual field showed right superior homonymous quadrantanopia. Computed tomography of the head without contrast showed acute ischemia in the left occipital lobe.
Source: Survey of Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Source Type: research