BILATERAL RETROBULBAR NEURITIS FOLLOWING UNILATERAL HERPES-ZOSTER OPHTHALMICUS

GUNDUZ K., OZDEMIR O.

OPHTHALMOLOGICA, vol.208, no.2, pp.61-64, 1994 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 208 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 1994
  • Doi Number: 10.1159/000310454
  • Journal Name: OPHTHALMOLOGICA
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.61-64
  • Keywords: HERPES ZOSTER OPHTHALMICUS, VISUALLY EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE, PATTERN ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY, COMPLICATIONS
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

A 48-year-old male diagnosed with right-onset herpes tester ophthalmicus developed visual acuity loss in the left eye during the following 3 weeks. Visually evoked cortical potential recordings revealed a marked increase in P100 latency and a marked decrease in its amplitude in both eyes. Pattern electroretinography suggested diffuse pathology with reduced positive and negative components. A possible transsynaptic or intraneural spread of the varicella-zoster virus in the optic nerve might be responsible for this unexplained contralateral loss of visual acuity.