European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

UNEXPLAINED PERIPHERAL VISUAL FIELD PROBLEMS IN AN ADULT PATIENT – A CASE REPORT

Manjunath Natarajan*, Bhavna Govindaraj

ABSTRACT

Medically unexplained visual symptoms are quiet common in ophthalmology practices these days. This particular patient presented to us for with just visual field problems which were distressing & no visual loss as such, which is quiet different to a majority where the patient has frank loss of vision. Most case reports relating to such cases suggest an element of psychosomatic conversion diseases with psychiatric support necessary.[1,2] Visually disturbing symptoms without a clearly identifiable cause are quiet distressing to the patient & frustrating to the treating doctor.[3] The patient was evaluated in a stepwise fashion with the most dangerous diagnoses excluded first, but no treatable cause of her symptoms was found for close to 3 weeks, until her symptoms spontaneously resolved.

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