Why Can't This Patient Look Up? Bilateral Vertical Gaze Palsy.
We report a case of a patient with profound bilateral vertical gaze palsy resulting from a unilateral thalamic lesion-one of only a handful of such cases ever reported. The patient had significant symptomatic vertical diplopia that was disabling functionally and vocationally. We discuss pathways whereby a unilateral lesion can cause bilateral gaze palsy. We also report on the successful functional and vocational rehabilitation of the patient's vertical diplopia. To our knowledge, this is the first report of successful rehabilitation of a patient with bilateral vertical diplopia due to a central lesion.
Department of Radiology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
Krishna
K
Surapaneni
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.
Lisa
L
Ferguson
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Temple University School of Medicine, 3401 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19140.
Eric L
EL
Altschuler
D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010243:Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D013788:Thalamus / Q000473:pathology*