headaches in ophthalmology
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Dr Paula BerdoukasGeneral Ophthalmologist
Headaches in Ophthalmology
symptoms for the optometrist
• Pain concentrated around the eye
• Headache with any associated ophthalmic symptom– blur, double vision, redness, photophobia, visual aura
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aim of assessment
• Diagnose and treat ophthalmic causes of headache• Recognise benign headache patterns with ophthalmic feature• Recognise ophthalmic symptoms or signs of intracranial or systemic
cause of headache• Know when to refer
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assessment
• VA• Refraction
– under corrected hypermetropia, overcorrected myopia, presbyopia
• Slit Lamp examination• IOP• Neurologic assessment
– VF, EOM, Cranial Nerves, Pupils • Skin/Scalp
– rash, temporal A
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ophthalmic causes of headache• Visible
– corneal abrasion/ infection, iritis, scleritis• Refractive error
– mild frontal headache, worse with prolonged visual task• Heterophoria/ Heterotropia
– mild frontal headache, intermittent blur or double vision• Angle Closure Glaucoma
– Severe pain around eye, haloes, loss of vision, redness• Pigment dispersion Syndrome
– intermittent blur, haloes and eye pain after exercise or pupil dilation • Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus
– pain, hyperesthesia, rash or vesicles in Vi +/- ocular inflammation
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benign headache patterns
• Migraine– +/- aura, nausea, vomiting, photophobia, phonophobia
• Cluster Headache– tearing, rhinorrhoea, sweating, ptosis +/- miosis
• Tension headache• Sinus disease
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What not to miss: headache with an intracranial origin
• Causes– tumors, inflammation, infection (meninges or paranasal sinuses), arterial
dissection or aneurysm, benign intracranial hypertension• History
– recent onset or increasing severity, constant, worse with coughing, straining or lying down
– normal vision, transient obscurations of vision, visual field defects•Examination
– anisocoria, ptosis, disc swelling, cranial nerve palsy
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Pupil Involving IIIrd nerve Palsy
• IIIn function– EOM: MR, IR, IO, SR, Levator– PARA to iris sphincter and ciliary mm
• Symptoms– Acute headache, double vision, nausea, neck stiffness
• Signs– Ptosis, EOM limitation (SO and LR work unopposed), pupil dilated
• Dx: Post Communicating A aneurysm– DDx: vasculopathic, GCA, demyelination, stroke, metastasis, trauma
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“Down and out”
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giant cell arteritis
• age > 50 years• headache
– recent temple/ frontal headache and tenderness
• vision– acute severe vision loss, amurosis fugax,
diplopia• systemic
– jaw claudication, polymyalgia, malaise, weight loss, fever, sweats
• Signs– field loss or blur– RAPD– swollen, pale or hyperemic
disc– retinal ischemia– EOM defect– tender non-pulsatile temporal
artery
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Mr SN
• 58 yr old• 1 week of headaches and right ear ache• 1 year of shoulder pain and cervical spine spurs, sees
chiropractor. • On his most recent visit, prior to any manipulation,
chiropractor noted L pupil was dilated and R lid droopy: referred to optom who referred to ophthl.
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Mr SN
• BCVA 6/5 OU• pupils light: OD 3mm, OS 4mm• pupils dark: OD 4mm OS 6mm• lids: MRD OD 3mm, OS 5mm
RUL 2mm ptosis• EOM full, no diplopia
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Provisional Diagnosis: Horners Syndrome secondary to ICA dissectionDDx: Malignancy, stroke, aneurysm,
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• MRI/ MRA: dissection of the RIGHT cervical ICA extending into the proximal carotid canalTreatment: emergency admission for anticoagulation: heparinisation then warfarin.
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