Current Perspective on Retinal Migraine
Abstract
:1. Introduction and Historical Evolution
‘he seemed to see something shining before him like a light, usually in part of the right eye; at the end of a moment, a violent pain supervened in the right temple, then in all the head and neck. vomiting, when it became possible, was able to divert the pain and render it more moderate.’
- clinical visual field examination
- the patient’s drawing of a monocular field defect (made after clear instruction)
- spreading gradually over ≥5 min
- symptoms last 5–60 min
- accompanied, or followed within 60 min, by headache
2. Methods
3. Epidemiology and Risk Factors
4. Proposed Aetiology
5. Clinical Presentation
6. Investigation
7. Management Strategies
8. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Disease Category | Examples |
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Vascular disease | Carotid artery disease (amaurosis fugax) |
Giant Cell Arteritis | |
Central retinal artery occlusion | |
Choroidal ischaemia from posterior ciliary arteries | |
Other arteritis processes that affect the short posterior ciliary arteritis | |
Ocular disease | Dry eyes |
Intermittent angle closure glaucoma | |
Optic nerve disorders | Papilloedema with transient visual obscuration |
Uhthoff’s phenomenon from demyelinating disease | |
Optic nerve compression (either gaze evoked visual loss or transient visual obscuration) |
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Chong, Y.J.; Mollan, S.P.; Logeswaran, A.; Sinclair, A.B.; Wakerley, B.R. Current Perspective on Retinal Migraine. Vision 2021, 5, 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision5030038
Chong YJ, Mollan SP, Logeswaran A, Sinclair AB, Wakerley BR. Current Perspective on Retinal Migraine. Vision. 2021; 5(3):38. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision5030038
Chicago/Turabian StyleChong, Yu Jeat, Susan P. Mollan, Abison Logeswaran, Alexandra B. Sinclair, and Benjamin R. Wakerley. 2021. "Current Perspective on Retinal Migraine" Vision 5, no. 3: 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision5030038