{"id":5172,"date":"2011-07-14T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashtext.org\/misc\/amaurosis-fugax.htm\/"},"modified":"2012-08-01T19:26:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T23:26:27","slug":"amaurosis-fugax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashingpatient.com\/medical-surgical\/neurology\/amaurosis-fugax.htm\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaurosis Fugax"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Amaurosis_Fugax\"><\/span>Amaurosis Fugax<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>better terms are transient monocular\/binocular vision loss<\/p>\n<p>mono implies vision loss anterior to the chiasm (eye or ocular nerve)<\/p>\n<p>if from ischemia then it is ipsilateral carotid disease<\/p>\n<p>patients can have homonymous field cuts and attribute monocular loss to the eye with the temporal cut<\/p>\n<p>usually painless if ischemic<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"TMVL\"><\/span>TMVL<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>most common cause is ischemia<\/p>\n<p>also optic neuropathy, papilledema, ocular disease<\/p>\n<p>more commonly from carotid disease rather than clots from the heart<\/p>\n<p>can also be from giant cell arteritis (usually mono, can be bilat)<\/p>\n<p>Send ESR in these patients if the right age (&gt; 50 y\/o)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"TBVL\"><\/span>TBVL<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>migraine<\/p>\n<p>seizure<\/p>\n<p>vertebrobasilar ischemia<\/p>\n<p>also giant cell<\/p>\n<p>migraine is the most common<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"wu\"><\/span>w\/u<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>esr\/crp if age &gt; 50<\/p>\n<p>carotid duplex or cta of neck vessels<\/p>\n<p>echo?<\/p>\n<p>MRI with DWI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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