Clinical analysis of neurophthalmological features in patients with intracranial vascular malformation / 中华实验眼科杂志

ABSTRACT

Background Intracranial vascular malformation causes different neurophthalmological symptoms and signs due to oppressing visual-related tissue and cranial nerves after hemorrhage.However,there is no availably systematic clinical research on this disease up to now.Objective This retrospective cases analysis was to explore the neurophthalmological features of intracranial vascular malformation.Methods The clinical datas were collected from 100 cases with intracranial vascular malformation in Affiliated Third Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University from June,2007 to June,2013.The neurophthalmological clinical features including general condition,initial symptom,concomitant symptoms and image results were retrospectively surveyed.Results Neurophthalmological symptoms and signs were found in 20 patients with intracranial vascular malformation by CT and MRI with the detectability 20％ (20/100).The main neurophthalmological symptoms were visual field defect (50％,10/20) and vision loss (45％,9/20).The neurophthalmological signs were pupil abnormalities (35％,7/20).Other neurophthalmological features included optic nerve atrophy (5 ％,1/20),papilloedema (5 ％,1/20) and oculomotor nerve palsy (5 ％,1/20),etc.The relevant cranial diseases included cerebral arteriovenous malformation in 60％ patients (12/20),cavernous angiomas in 35％ (7/20) and venous malformation with cavernous angiomas (1/20).The lesions of cerebral arteriovenous malformation were located in occipital lobe (4 cases),parietal-occipital area (3 cases),temporal lobe (3 cases) and frontal lobe (1 case),midbrain area (1 case) ; while those of cavernous angiomas were located in parietal lobe (1 case),occipital lobe (1 case),gyrus cingulated area occipital lobe (1 case),carvenous sinus (1 case),temporal lobe (1 case),parietal-temporal area (1 case) and pons area (1 case).Intracranial hemorrhage occurred in 14 patients in subarachnoid space (6 cases) and brain (8 cases).Conclusions The patients with intracranial vascular malformation have different neurophthalmological symptoms and signs.Sufficient attention should be paid to the patients with neurophthalmological symptoms and signs.