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29-year-old woman presents with subacute vision loss and headaches
A 29-year-old obese white woman with a known history of idiopathic intracranial hypertension, or IIH, presented to the New England Eye Center with 1 month of progressively decreasing vision in her right eye and positional headaches. She was diagnosed with IIH 5 years prior, after presenting with transient visual obscurations in her right eye and headaches. She was noncompliant with oral medications and had a recent 45-pound weight gain.On examination, best corrected visual acuity was 20/200 in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye. The patient had an (Read more...)