Sudden bilateral vision loss in a young patient with systemic autoimmune disease and a normal brain MRI, which responded to steroid treatment
Sudden bilateral vision loss in young patients with autoimmune diseases should raise suspicion for immune-mediated optic neuropathy.Normal magnetic resonance imaging and fundoscopy findings do not exclude serious inflammatory pathology.Early empirical corticosteroid therapy can be vision-saving.
Authors
- L. A. Delfín Beltran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1213-6311)
- Manuel Salomón Aguilar
- Carlos Alberto Botero López
- Marco Antonio Rodriguez Sanchez
- Jesús Figueroa
- Carlos Guizado
- Ramon Ruelas
Institutions
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (MX)
- Pediatric Hospital of Sinaloa (MX)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2025-10-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.12890/2025_005854
- Primary Topic
- Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00