Steroid treatment is effective in optochiasmatic arachnoiditis due to sarcoidosis and the response to treatment can be easily monitored clinically and with cranial mri. Hyaluronidase as an adjuvant in the treatment of cranial arachnoiditis hydrocephalus and optochiasmatic arachnoiditis complicating tuberculous meningitis m. Tuberculous optochiasmatic arachnoiditis oca is a rare complication of tuberculous meningitis. Hyaluronidase as an adjuvant in the treatment of cranial. Optochiasmatic arachnoiditis is a condition of the eye in which the arachnoid present in the eye socket behind the eye gets thickened due to infection or trauma. In other words, time is not on your side, as you never know the.
A 24yearold woman presented with progressive optochiasmatic arachnoiditis causing progressively worsening visual loss associated with headache and amenorrhea. Word file this symbol represents a statement of principles file in word document format. A patient had visual field loss and optochiasmatic arachnoiditis and subsequently developed other evidence of multiple sclerosis. Devi department of neurology, national institute of mental health and neuro sciences, bangalore, india. Arachnoiditis is a pain disorder caused by the inflammation of the arachnoid, one of the membranes that surrounds and protects the nerves of the spinal cord. Arachnoiditis cerebral angiography optic chiasma optic nerve pneumoencephalography. It appears you have not yet signed up with our community. The arachnoid membrane at the optic chiasm gets affected, which leads to loss of vision with the passage of time. To report an extremely rare case of paraplegia due to adhesive arachnoiditis with extensive syringomyelia es and a giant anterior arachnoid spinal cyst aasc after spinal and epidural.
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