title: Prolonged course of bilateral acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement.
abstract: We report a patient with bilateral "acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement" (AIBSE) in whom visual symptoms and enlarged blind spots persisted for over 6 years and preceded the development of peripapillary hyperfluorescence on fluorescein angiography. These findings confirm the prolonged course that AIBSE can sometimes take and the suggestion that this rare disorder is due to peripapillary retinal dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Lesser
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000473:pathology*; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014794:Visual Fields