An 83-year-old woman with diet-controlled type 2 diabetes presented to Lahey Medical Center as a transfer from Bermuda for presumed orbital cellulitis.
Ten days before presentation to our institution, the patient developed acute-onset left eye ptosis, discomfort, discharge and subjective eyelid swelling. She was seen by her local ophthalmologist with a visual acuity of 20/40 in the involved eye from a baseline vision of 20/20 and was prescribed topical antibiotic/steroid drops. She was seen 4 days later with vision decline in the left eye to count fingers at 1 foot, (Read more...)
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