Visual snow in a paediatric patient

Archivos de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmología
E Santos-BuesoJ Porta-Etessam

Abstract

The case is presented of an 11 year-old girl referring to a one year history of photophobia and continuously seeing white spots in both eyes. The patient had a visual acuity of unity in both eyes, and a normal eye examination, and was referred to the Neuro-ophthalmology Unit. Once complete laboratory and imaging tests ruled out the possibility of any neurological pathology, she was diagnosed with visual snow (VS). VS is an isolated symptom, possibly part of the migraine aura, that is referred by patients reporting numerous and constant white dots moving in the visual field of BE. It can significantly interfere with patient's daily activities by altering their quality of life, and ending up as a misdiagnosis. Paediatric patients also present a diagnostic challenge due to the complex interpretation that the presence of VS involves in them.

References

Jul 23, 2013·Journal of AAPOS : the Official Publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus·Robin BruenLuis H Ospina
Dec 3, 2014·Journal français d'ophtalmologie·O ZambrowskiM P Robert
Jan 23, 2016·Journal of Clinical Neuroscience : Official Journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia·Jenny L LauschkeClare L Fraser
Mar 29, 2016·Seminars in Pediatric Neurology·Reena Gogia RastogiKara Stuart Lewis
Oct 8, 2016·Headache·Christoph J SchankinPeter J Goadsby

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