Requirement for Head Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Children Who Present to the Emergency Department With Acute Nontraumatic Visual Disturbance

Pediatric Emergency Care
Jeong-Yong LeeTae-Sung Ko

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the clinical features and head magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in children who presented to the emergency department with acute nontraumatic visual disturbance and to study related clinical factors for discovering positive lesions on head MRI. We performed a retrospective study of 1-month to 15-year-old children who underwent head MRI as an evaluation for acute nontraumatic visual disturbance as a chief complaint in our pediatric emergency department between March 2010 and March 2015. The symptoms of visual disturbance were blurred vision, diplopia, loss of vision, and visual hallucination. Head MRI findings were considered positive when lesions could explain the symptoms. We identified 39 patients (25 with blurred vision, 9 with diplopia, 3 with loss of vision, and 2 with visual hallucination) with a mean age of 8.35 ± 4.06 years. Positive head MRI findings were identified in 13 patients (33.3%). Brain tumors were most common (53.8%), followed by optic nerve inflammations (23.1%), congenital brain lesions (15.4%), and hypertensive encephalopathy (7.7%). Compared with the negative head MRI group, the positive head MRI group showed significantly less transient visual disturbance (duratio...Continue Reading

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