A 28-year-old Latino woman presented to the University of New Mexico emergency department with the complaint of acute onset left eye pain, photophobia and visual decline.
She described the pain as sharp and constant with a severity of 7 out of 10. Her symptoms occurred abruptly in the middle of the day 1 day prior without any inciting trauma or injury to the eye. She had similar pain in her right eye more than 1 month before presentation and was diagnosed with a corneal abrasion at an outside emergency department. (Read more...)