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ea0049ep316 | Clinical case reports - Thyroid/Others | ECE2017

Optic neuritis as presenting complaint in primary hypoparathyroidism

Fahad Arshad Muhammad , Kang Steven , Arif Jadoon Nauman , Karim Rehmat

Background: Papilledema and raised intracranial pressure has been reported frequently in patients with hypoparathyroidism but very rarely optic neuritis (1).Clinical case: We report a case of 63-year-old male who presented to ophthalmology with right-sided visual loss and a relative afferent pupillary defect. He was diagnosed with optic neuritis and underwent MRI brain which showed bilateral white matter changes with the possibility of demyelination. He ...