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Downbeat nystagmus with a pseudocycloid waveform: Improvement with base-out prisms

✍ Scribed by P. J. M. Lavin; S. Traccis; Dr L. F. Dell'Osso; L. A. Abel; C. Ellenberger Jr


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1983
Tongue
English
Weight
398 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0364-5134

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Abstract

Downbeat nystagmus in primary position and oscillopsia resulted from nutritional deficiency during prolonged intravenous therapy of a patient with hyperemesis gravidarum. Wide bandwidth infrared oculography demonstrated a pseudocycloid nystagmus waveform with an increasing‐velocity exponential slow phase. Because the oscillopsia decreased and the nystagmus was damped with convergence, visual acuity improved with the addition of base‐out prisms to each spectacle lens.