Optic Neuropathy and Postnasal Drip

Blurred vision ODA 26-year old male with a history of sinus headaches and postnasal drip.VA: 20/30 OU; Defective color visionCTPhycomycosisSurgery; Corticosteroid; Antibiotics1. Optic Neuritis, Perkins and Rose (Eds), 1979 (pp 94-97). 2. Duke-Elder Vol XII, 1971 (pp 84-89). (Extensive literature reviews in both texts) B. Phycomycosis and the eye. 3. Schwartz, J.N. .Donnelly, E.H., and Klintworth.G.K., Ocular and Orbital Phycomycosis, Surv Ophthal, 22:3-28, 1977. 4. Ferry, A.P., Cerebral Mucormycosis. Ocular Findings and Review of the Literature, Surv Ophthal, 6:1-24, 1961. 5. Gass, J.D.M., Arch Ophth, 65:214-220; 226-237, 1961. 6. Straatsma, B.R., Zimmerman, L.E. and Gass, J.D.M., Phycomycosis: A Clinicopathologic Study of 51 Cases, Laboratory Investigation, 11:963-985, 1962. 7. Baum, J.L., Rhinoorbital Mucormycosis in an Otherwise Apparently Healthy Indivisual, Am J Ophth, 63:335-339, 1967. 8. Francois, J. and Rysselaere, M., Oculomycosis, Charles C. Thomas; Springfield, Illinois, 1972. 9. Bennett, J.E., Drug Therapy. Chemotherapy of Systemic Mycoses, N Engl J Med, 290:30-32, 1974