Homonymous Hemianopsia Due to Posterior Cortical Atrophy

Francesco Pellegrini; Andrew G. Lee; Pietro Zucchetta

doi:10.1080/01658107.2016.1278556

Homonymous Hemianopsia Due to Posterior Cortical Atrophy

Francesco Pellegrini, Andrew G. Lee, Pietro Zucchetta

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Abstract

A 63-year-old woman presented to her ophthalmologist complaining of reading difficulties for two years. Ophthalmological examination revealed a homonymous hemianopsia. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was interpreted as normal, but positron emission tomography (PET) showed areas of posterior brain hypometabolism. This case highlights the high diagnostic suspicion that ophthalmologists should have regarding posterior cortical atrophy (including the visual variant of Alzheimer disease) in patients complaining of reading difficulties in the setting of a normal ophthalmic examination.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	154-158
Number of pages	5
Journal	Neuro-Ophthalmology
Volume	41
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01658107.2016.1278556
State	Published - May 4 2017

Keywords

Brain PET
homonymous hemianopsia
posterior cortical atrophy
visual variant of Alzheimer disease

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Ophthalmology
Clinical Neurology

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