Asymptomatic papilledema

Authors

  • Nisbeth Hernández Casanova Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Teresa de los Ángeles Casanova Rodríguez Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • José Anacleto Treto Rosales Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Keywords:

papilledema/diagnosis, central nervous system cysts/surgery, tomography, x-ray computed

Abstract

A previously healthy 27 year-old male patient arrived at the Ophthalmology Services referring he had had intermittent vision floaters in the left eye during the last three months, without any other accompanying symptoms. He underwent an ophthalmologic physical examination that included visual acuity with Snellen test, an applanation tonometry, a slit-lamp biomicroscopy, a direct and indirect opthalmoscopy and the test of Ishihara. Vision of 20/20 was verified in both eyes and an intraocular pressure of 19 mm Hg in both eyes. There was no alteration in the vision of colors and no alteration was found in the anterior segment. A bilateral papilledema was diagnosed by means of a fundoscopy. The patient was referred to neurosurgery consultation where the presence of an intraventricular cyst was diagnosed by means of a cranial CT scan, being necessary a surgical treatment. After surgery the papilledema disappeared and the patient recovered satisfactorily.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Nisbeth Hernández Casanova, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Medicina General Integral y en Oftalmología. Máster en Longevidad Satisfactoria. Profesora Instructora del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Teresa de los Ángeles Casanova Rodríguez, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Oftalmología. Máster en Longevidad Satisfactoria. Profesora Asistente del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

José Anacleto Treto Rosales, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Neurología

Downloads

How to Cite

1.
Hernández Casanova N, Casanova Rodríguez T de los Ángeles, Treto Rosales JA. Asymptomatic papilledema. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2008 Sep. 17 [cited 2025 Jun. 29];2(3):70-3. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/407

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 3 (2008): September-December

Section

Case Reports

License

Authors who have publications with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors will retain their copyright and assign to the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to a Creative Commons License / Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and first publication in this journal are indicated.
  2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., depositing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a monographic volume) as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
  3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their web page) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The effect of open access).