Blind spot enlargement: A differential diagnosis challenge. 2023

Aristotelis Karamaounas, and Anna M Sideri, and Anastasia Tsiogka, and Iordanis Georgiou, and Dimitrios Kourkoutas, and Petros Petrou
Department of Ophthalmology, "G. Gennimatas" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.

A 39-year-old woman, without any systemic or ocular history, presented with a paracentral scotoma in her right eye with normal visual acuity. Humphrey's visual fields showed a reversible enlargement of the right blind spot. The final diagnosis was acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement which was successfully treated with intravenous steroids. Although differential diagnosis of blind spot enlargement can be challenging, multimodal imaging with combination of visual field's assessment can help us make the right diagnosis.

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