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What type of visual disturbance qualifies as a visual aura?
Visual aura is commonly described as a scintillating scotoma. In practice, there is a much wider spectrum of visual symptoms in the migraine population. I’m curious whether people would consider “blurry vision”, “seeing spots”, or other vague descriptions as evidence of aura.
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As a neurologist, my definition of migraine aura is that it concerns transient focal neurological symptoms. This means that the symptoms are neurological, localizable, and transient. If they are not transient and we still think of them as migraine aura, we call them migraine aura status.Although it ...
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