52 year old man with intermittent proptosis
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
The patient is a 52-year-old man with a complaint of a red, painful, bulging right eye with double vision and blurring for 2 weeks. He has had several similar, but less severe, episodes in the past 9 years. It occurs more commonly with the right eye, but sometimes occurs with the left eye. He has a few episodes each year lasting a few weeks each and treats himself with ibuprofen. The current episode is more severe than usual and has not responded to ibuprofen. In some cases he has concurrent cold symptoms, but not during the current episode.
Downloads
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
References
Snebold NG. Noninfectious orbital inflammations and vasculitis. In: Albert DM, Jakobiec FA, eds. Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology. Vol 3. Philadelphia, WB Saunders; 1994: 1923-42.
Benson WE. Posterior scleritis. Surv Ophthalmol 1988;32:297.
Kennerdell JS, Dresner SC. The nonspecific orbital inflammatory syndromes. Surv Ophthalmol 1984;29:93.
Mauriello JA, Flanagan JC. Management of orbital inflammatory disease: a protocol. Surv Ophthalmol 1984;29:104.