A 55-year-old man at Tufts Medical Center for hypovolemic shock due to a gastrointestinal hemorrhage was referred to the inpatient ophthalmology consult service for left eye acute painless inferior visual field loss upon waking.
The patient felt his vision was at his baseline before going to bed. Upon waking, he noticed a visual field defect in the inferior aspect of his left eye. He denied flashing lights, floaters or eye pain in either eye. He had no visual complaints in his right eye.
Two days before evaluation, he had a (Read more...)