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Reminder of important clinical lesson
Ockham's razor revisited: decreased visual acuity secondary to keratoconus in a patient with intracranial hypertension
  1. Adrian T Fung1,2,
  2. Domit Azar2,3,
  3. Samantha Fraser-Bell1,2,
  4. Peter McCluskey1,2,4,
  5. John Grigg1,2
  1. 1Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  2. 2Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology and Eye Health, The University of Sydney Medical School, Save Sight Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  3. 3Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  4. 4Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Adrian T Fung, adrianfungi{at}yahoo.com.au

Summary

Both intracranial hypertension and keratoconus may be associated with visual impairment. The authors present a case of a young female with poor right vision that did not improve despite treatment of her intracranial hypertension. Ophthalmic consultation diagnosed keratoconus as the cause.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.05.2010.3030

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