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Corneal suture removal, particularly microsurgery requiring complete immobility, demands adequate anesthetic depth while ensuring rapid recovery.
Read caseA 52-year-old man presented with five months of enlarging left lacrimal swelling, proptosis, and mildly reduced visual acuity. CT showed a well-defined 9 × 12 mm orbital lesion without bone erosion or local invasion.
A 68-year-old immunocompetent woman presented with headache, vertigo, and diplopia. Examination revealed bilateral optic disc edema.
A 69-year-old man presented with 18 hours of acute, severe blurred vision in the right eye. Fundus examination and optical coherence tomography showed central retinal artery occlusion with inner retinal edema.
A 36-year-old man developed progressive bilateral visual loss over 5 days, with papillitis on fundus examination. Brain MRI and CSF were normal, and serum NMO and MOG testing was negative.
A 34-year-old woman developed pain and reduced vision after a pet bird injured her left cornea, 10 months after uncomplicated femtosecond LASIK.
Three siblings with genetically confirmed DOCK8 deficiency had early-onset atopic dermatitis, recurrent respiratory infections, and failure to thrive. All developed bronchiectasis and severe viral infections.
A 38-year-old woman developed acute diplopia, right eye pain, headache, and perioral numbness two weeks after an upper respiratory infection.
A healthy, immunocompetent 47-year-old active-duty man developed fever, chills, and fatigue, tested positive for COVID, and then experienced painful right-eye vision loss with a temporal field deficit.
An 82-year-old man with age-related cataract and a history of bilateral pterygium surgery with corneal scarring developed Descemet membrane detachment during phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation.
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