{"title":"Vision impairment as the first symptom of encephalomyelitis in a paediatric patient","authors":"A. Świerczyńska, M. Woś","doi":"10.24292/01.OT.250521","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An 8-year-old boy was admitted to the Ophthalmology Department due to a vision impairment with an accompanying decrease in visual acuity and bilateral optic disc oedema. As a result of interdisciplinary diagnostics, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, probably related to preceding infection, was diagnosed.","PeriodicalId":112284,"journal":{"name":"OphthaTherapy. Therapies in Ophthalmology","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"OphthaTherapy. Therapies in Ophthalmology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24292/01.OT.250521","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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An 8-year-old boy was admitted to the Ophthalmology Department due to a vision impairment with an accompanying decrease in visual acuity and bilateral optic disc oedema. As a result of interdisciplinary diagnostics, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, probably related to preceding infection, was diagnosed.