What work-up do you recommend for optic nerve edema in a patient who is immunocompromised?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
Symptoms (is visual loss present or not?) and time of onset/pace help to direct the workup. For unilateral optic nerve edema with vision loss, optic neuritis and NAION are always high on the differential. In immunocompromised patients, an infectious cause such as herpes zoster, syphilis, TB, and art...
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In Upstate NY, Lyme is always to be considered. I ...
Thank you, and you are quite correct that Lyme dis...