Bálint syndrome and visual allochiria in a patient with reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome.
Publication/Presentation Date
12-1-2012
Abstract
Bálint syndrome (simultagnosia, optic ataxia, and ocular apraxia) is typically caused by pathology affecting the parietal-occipital regions bilaterally. Visual allochiria is an uncommonly reported symptom associated with parietal lobe pathology in which visual stimuli presented to one hemispace are transposed to the opposite side. We describe a patient with Bálint syndrome and visual allochiria whose initial brain MRI demonstrated acute infarction of the right parietal-occipital region. Repeat imaging 9 days later revealed bilateral parietal-occipital infarctions consistent with the observed clinical syndrome. Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome is introduced as a novel cerebrovascular etiology of Bálint syndrome.
Volume
32
Issue
4
First Page
302
Last Page
306
ISSN
1536-5166
Published In/Presented At
Walsh, R. D., Floyd, J. P., Eidelman, B. H., & Barrett, K. M. (2012). Bálint syndrome and visual allochiria in a patient with reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome. Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, 32(4), 302–306. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNO.0b013e3182359f4a
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
22089541
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article