Visual snow: Not so benign.
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
Visual snow
Journal
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
ISSN: 1532-2653
Titre abrégé: J Clin Neurosci
Pays: Scotland
ID NLM: 9433352
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2019
Jun 2019
Historique:
received:
21
01
2019
accepted:
11
03
2019
pubmed:
27
3
2019
medline:
2
7
2019
entrez:
27
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Visual snow is the perception of flickering dots throughout the entire visual field and occurs with other symptoms of dysfunctional central sensory processing. We describe a patient who presented with visual snow, illusory visual motion, photopsia, and reduced night vision. He subsequently developed progressive cognitive impairment, myoclonus and ataxia. A diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease was confirmed on post-mortem examination more than 49 months after symptom onset. The visual snow syndrome is typically benign, but our patient illustrates that occasionally it is the first manifestation of a serious brain disease. Careful application of the diagnostic criteria for the visual snow syndrome is important, particularly with the use of neuroimaging to exclude pathology in the occipital cortex.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30910546
pii: S0967-5868(19)30138-9
doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2019.03.023
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
37-39Informations de copyright
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