Girl referred for visual field defect, ‘heavy’ sensation behind eye

A 13-year-old girl was referred from an outside ophthalmologist with a complaint of a “gray line going straight through” the visual field in her left eye that began 2 days before presentation. One day before presentation, she began having a “dull, heavy” sensation behind her left eye, with a severity of 8 out of 10, as well as expansion of her visual field defect peripherally, described as “the gray blob spread.”On presentation, she described her pain as “minimal” but noted her vision still remained very poor. She denied any prior (Read more...)

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