--- a +++ b/data/text/es-S0365-66912007001100010-1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +A 63 year old patient who reported a visual acuity (VA) deficit in the right eye (OD) of several months' evolution. +His personal history included post-traumatic epilepsy of ten years' duration, arterial hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus. +He had been treated with 1.5 g vigabatrin and 200 mg carbamazepine daily since the trauma. +VA was 0.3 in the OD and 0.8 in the left eye with correction. +Anterior biomicroscopy and tonometry were normal. +Ophthalmoscopy revealed pallor of both papillae and a macular epiretinal membrane in the OD. + +Computerised Humphrey 30/2 white-white and blue-yellow perimetry showed severe concentric campimetric reductions in both eyes (Humphrey instruments, model 745, Carl Zeiss Inc). + +She had no family history of interest, so hereditary optic neuropathy was ruled out. +The anamnesis and analytical determinations of mean corpuscular volume, vitamins B1, B6, B12 and folic acid ruled out nutritional aetiology. +A diagnosis of retinotoxicity due to vigabatrin was established and the patient was referred to the neurology department. +At one year of follow-up, the loss of campimetry and VA persisted. + +