PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alejandro Viloria
AU  - Beatriz Jimenez
AU  - Marta Palacín
TI  - Reversible severe bilateral visual loss in an unusual case of bilateral lateral geniculate myelinolysis during acute pancreatitis
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2015-212409
DP  - 2015 Dec 30
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr2015212409
VI  - 2015
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2015/bcr-2015-212409.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2015/bcr-2015-212409.full
AB  - A 40-year-old man was diagnosed with pancreatitis following cholecystectomy. During hospitalisation, he reported bilateral acute vision loss. His best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was counting fingers in the right eye and 20/200 in the left eye. Ocular fundus examination and optical coherence tomography revealed a slight alteration in the retinal nerve fibres in the nasal macular region. Automated perimetry revealed bilateral visual field defects affecting both temporal and nasal hemifields in a predominantly nasal distribution, and brain MRI confirmed symmetrical lesions within both lateral geniculate nuclei. BCVA was gradually recovered, reaching 20/20 within 6 weeks.