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C Staudenmaier

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PubMed1986

Superior oblique myokymia: when treatment is necessary.

A 56-year-old woman presented with a 10-year history of torsional diplopia and right monocular oscillopsia. These symptoms, which had been intermittent at first, continued practically uninterrupted during the last 2 years. She was diagnosed as having superior oblique myokymia of the right eye. Adequate trials of oral carbamazepine, baclofen and phenytoin were unsuccessful in suppressing her symptoms. One year after her initial presentation, she underwent a right superior oblique tenectomy and a right inferior oblique recession. She eventually required a second operation on her other eye to cure her of an annoying diplopia on down-gaze.

Carbamazepine↗
PubMed1983

Periodic alternating gaze deviation with dissociated secondary face turn.

Periodic alternating gaze (PAG) deviation and secondary face turn occurred in a 4-year-old boy with an Arnold-Chiari (Chiari type 2) malformation and hydrocephalus. The child also had a periodic alternating esotropia. Reports of only three other similar cases could be found. To our knowledge, this is the youngest patient described in the literature and the first time PAG deviation and esotropia have been associated with the Arnold-Chiari malformation.

Abnormalities, Multiple↗
PubMed1980

Ocular defects and short stature.

The presence of ocular anomalies in a short child raises the possibility of hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction or other intracranial abnormalities. The ocular, endocrine and neurologic findings in three children with short stature are described in this article. The first child had a large basal encephalocele, agenesis of the corpus callosum, mild optic atrophy in one eye, a retinal pigment epithelial defect in the other eye and bitemporal hemianopia; the second child had septo-optic dysplasia and the third child had Rieger's anomaly. All had deficient or abnormal growth hormone responses and two of the children had other pituitary hormonal abnormalities. It is suggested that an arrest of development during organogenesis can produce a spectrum of abnormalities involving ocular, endocrine and neurologic structures. Early diagnosis is important so that endocrinologic and neurologic investigations can be undertaken and appropriate therapy implemented.

Adolescent↗