Implacable Optic Neuritis (Pathology)

Transient visual obscuration followed by complete obscuration of vision OD; Intermittent eye and head painA 37-year old female with transient visual obscurations ODVA: LPO ODCT; MRA; MRIInflammatory infiltrates; Vasculitis; Erytheromatous skin nodulesCorticosteroids; Antirheumatic agents1. Long SM, Dolin P; Polyarteritis nodosa presenting as acute blindness; Ann Emerg Med; 24(3); 523-525, 1994. 2. Matsui, M; (Ophthalmological aspects of systemic vasculitis); Nippon Rinsho - Japanese J. Clin. Med.; 52(8); 158-163, 1994. 3. Denis, G. Fantin, J. Grandon, M. Couturier P. (Bilateral acute ischemic optic neuropathy in periarteritis nodosa); Bull des Soc. D'Ophtalmologie de France; 84 (8-9); 909-911, 1984. 4. Hutchinson, CH; Polyarteritis nodosa presenting as posterior ischaemic optic neuropathy; J. Roy. Soc. Med.; 77(12); 1043-6, 1984. 5. Saraux H, Laroche L, Foels A, Martin-Gousset D; (Posterior acute ischemic optic neuropathy); J. Francais d'Ophtalmologie; 5(3); 167-171, 1982. 6. Saraux H, Le Hoang P, Laroche L; (Anterior and posterior ischemic optic neuropathy related to polyarteritis nodosa; J.Francais d'ophtalmologie; 5(1); 55-61, 1982. 7. Newman NM, Hoyt WF, Spencer WH; Macula sparing monocular blackouts. Clinical and pathologic investigations of intermittent choroidal vascular insufficiency in a case of periarteritis nodosa; Arch. Ophthalmology; 91(5); 367-370, 1974. 8. Kimbrell OC Jr,Wheliss JA; Polyarteritis nodosa complicated by bilateral optic neuropathy; JAMA; 201(1); 139-140; 1967