Seeing is not believing

Zane Foster; Ashwini Kini; Bayan Al Othman; Andrew G. Lee; Michael Vaphiades

doi:10.1016/j.survophthal.2019.03.008

Seeing is not believing

Zane Foster, Ashwini Kini, Bayan Al Othman, Andrew G. Lee, Michael Vaphiades

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An 84-year-old woman with a history of dry age-related macular degeneration presented with an acute inability to read, but intact writing ability (pure alexia or alexia without agraphia). She denied any difficulty speaking, paresthesias, or hemiparesis. Her visual acuity was 20/20 in each eye. Macular examination, optical coherence tomography, and fluorescein angiography demonstrated the previously diagnosed macular drusen and geographic atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium consistent with the dry form of age-related macular degeneration both eyes. Automated perimetry revealed a right homonymous hemianopsia. Neuroimaging confirmed a left occipital ischemic infarction with involvement of the splenium of the corpus callosum producing the classic disconnection syndrome of alexia without agraphia.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	386-390
Number of pages	5
Journal	Survey of Ophthalmology
Volume	65
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.survophthal.2019.03.008
State	Published - May 1 2020

Keywords

alexia without agraphia
occipital lobe
pure alexia
reading problems
splenium of corpus callosum
stroke

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Ophthalmology

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