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    Blowout Fracture

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    eye is inflammation. Inflammation may also be accompanied with redness within the eye. The orbit may also develop a contusion, or what is also known as a black eye. Moreover, when a blowout fracture occurs, diplopia, also known as double vision, frequently develops (Prentice, 2016). Diplopia, along with numbness on the floor of the orbit, can indicate that the injury is severe. The numbness sensation along the floor of the orbit is usually associated with an injury to the infraorbital nerve (Prentice

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    Vertigo Case Paper

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    and then went to work and while there, he had the sudden onset of marked spinning vertigo. He was unable to walk straight, but denied any bilateral lower extremity weakness. He did have nausea and vomited several times. He initially denied any diplopia, visual field cut, blurred vision, facial asymmetry, facial or body sensory changes, dysarthria, or focal weakness. He continued to have marked vertigo in the emergency room,

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    3 Palsy Case Studies

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    CRANIAL NERVE 3 PALSY Differential diagnoses : -Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA), myasthenia gravis, thyroid eye disease, chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, internuclear ophthalmoplegia,skew deviation, parinaud syndrome, idiopathic orbital inflammatory syndrome. 4 Danger and referral: complete pupil involving/relative pupil involving CN3 palsy is an emergency and mass or aneurysm needs to be ruled out as it can be fatal. 4, Hence refer immediately to neurologist for CNS imaging.4 This also

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    Orbital Fracture Essay

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    ecchymosis (discoloration due to bleeding), subcutaneous emphysema (trapped air under skin, swollen), and avulsion of the canaliculus (proximal portion of the tear duct drainage system ). Signs of eye displacement and nerve damage are: side gazing, diplopia (double vision), severe nausea, increase vague tone (oculocardiac reflex) and subconjuctival hemorrhage (broken blood vessel of the eye causing a red patch). This is true because the

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    Tia Case Study

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    Other symptoms may include: tinnitus, vertigo, blurred vision, diplopia, eyelid ptosis and ataxia. MANIFESTATIONS Contralateral weakness of the lower face, hands, arms and legs; transient dysphasia; numbness or loss of sensation; headache; temporary loss of vision of one eye; sudden inability to speak. Other symptoms may include: tinnitus, vertigo, blurred vision, diplopia, eyelid ptosis and ataxia. ETIOLOGY Episode of cerebrovascular insufficiency with temporary

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    Chief Complaint Headache. History Patient is a 25-year old right-handed white female who started having around age 11 or 12. Menarche was around age 13. After menarche, she did notice some correlation with her milder headaches and her menses. That has been persistent throughout. She also was having headaches at other times. She gets two kinds of headaches. Her mild headaches are up to twice a week. She had been taking Excedrin, Aleve, Tylenol, or Advil for these. She has a more severe headache

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    Furthermore, another effect is visual problems. Visual problems from computer patient will meet the doctor with symptom blurred vision, double vision (diplopia), etc. Actually, these problems are not caused by nearsightedness or myopia, farsightedness or hyperopia, astigmatism and refractive problem, but the effect of these problems are from prolonged computer usage. The study of computer vision syndrome in computer office workers blurred vision can be found up to 23.8% and this study also found

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    A prism is a transparent object which is triangular in shape and is able to refract light at acute angles to separate diffused light into its different colors. Your doctor may recommend that you use a prism in your prescription eyeglasses. Prisms are great for people whose eyes struggle to work with cohesion. If your doctor finds that your eyes do not work together, due to reasons, such as muscle imbalance, they will suggest a prism to counter the difference between the eyes. A prism placed in your

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    Graves Disease (GD)

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    Graves’ disease (GD) is a common autoimmune endocrine disorder characterized by thyroid hyperplasia and excessive thyroid hormone production (Karoutsou & Polymeris, 2011). Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO), is the most common extra-thyroidal manifestation of GD which characterized by orbital inflammation that affects mainly the extra-ocular muscles and fibro-adipose tissue (Marcocci & Marinò, 2012). Graves opthalmopathy is caused by an abnormal antibody attack on the thyroid gland which often results in

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    Cause Visual Problems

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    Can Computer Cause Visual Problems? Nowadays, societies have constantly developed and in many countries have transformed into a modern society completely. Human beings invent many technologies to meet their own needs and for society. Technology has created a lot of comfort for humans, but because of this convenience, people are increasingly dependent on technology. The technology that influences humans today is computers, including smartphones. Computers are one of the most advanced technologies

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