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abstract

  • A 51-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes mellitus presented with new onset left-sided hemiparesis, left-sided neglect, and left-sided incongruous, denser inferiorly, homonymous hemianopsia. Magnetic resonance image of the brain showed prominent swelling of the right frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes greater than on the left with significant change in the fluid-attenuated inversion recovery signal in the gray matter. Perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies titers were elevated, and skin biopsy demonstrating leukocytoclastic vasculitis. He showed marked clinical and radiographic improvement in association with recovery of vascular abnormalities after the initiation of prednisone, pulse therapy with methylprednisolone, and methotrexate. Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of neuro-ophthalmic manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis-related vasculitis causing homonymous hemianopsia.

publication date

  • July 23, 2015

Research

keywords

  • Arthritis, Rheumatoid
  • Hemianopsia
  • Vasculitis, Central Nervous System
  • Vasculitis, Leukocytoclastic, Cutaneous

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84952874923

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.survophthal.2015.07.002

PubMed ID

  • 26212152

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 61

issue

  • 1