Bilateral Occipital Lobe Infarction Presenting as Bilateral Inferior Altitudinal Defects
10.3341/jkos.2019.60.3.298
- Author:
Seong Wook HAN
1
;
Seung Ah CHUNG
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea. mingming8@naver.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Altitudinal hemianopsia;
Calcarine fissure;
Hemianopsia;
Posterior cerebral artery infarction
- MeSH:
Brain;
Color Vision;
Constriction, Pathologic;
Corpus Callosum;
Hemianopsia;
Humans;
Hypertension;
Infarction;
Infarction, Posterior Cerebral Artery;
Intraocular Pressure;
Magnetic Resonance Angiography;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Nerve Fibers;
Occipital Lobe;
Optic Chiasm;
Posterior Cerebral Artery;
Retinaldehyde;
Tomography, Optical Coherence;
Visual Acuity;
Visual Fields
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
2019;60(3):298-302
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: Horizontal visual field defects are generally caused by lesions before the optic chiasm, but we report a case with bilateral inferior altitudinal defects secondary to bilateral occipital lobe infarction. CASE SUMMARY: A 57-year-old male with a history of diabetes and hypertension presented with a month of blurring in the inferior visual field. His corrected visual acuity was 1.0 in the right eye and 0.63 in the left eye, and the intraocular pressure was normal in each eye. Pupillary response, ocular movement, and color vision tests were normal in both eyes. There was no specific finding of the optic disc and macula on fundus examination. Visual field examination revealed an inferior congruous homonymous hemianopia with horizontal meridian sparing and a left incongruous homonymous quadrantanopia. Optical coherence tomography for peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness revealed a mild decrease in the inferior disc of both eyes. Brain magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the presence of an acute infarction confined with upper medial calcarine fissures of bilateral occipital lobe and the right splenium of the corpus callosum, which were consistent with inferior altitudinal hemianopia and left superior incongruous quadrantanopia, respectively. Brain magnetic resonance angiography showed multiple stenosis of bilateral posterior cerebral arteries. CONCLUSIONS: The altitudinal visual field defects could be caused by the occipital lesion medial to the calcarine fissure, and unusual visual defects could be due to a combination of multiple lesions.
