Spontaneous involution of retinal and intracranial arteriovenous malformation in Bonnet-Dechaume-Blanc syndrome
- 1Department of Ophthalmology and Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, AR, USA
- 2Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Correspondence to: Michael C Brodsky, MD, Arkansas Children's Hospital, 800 Marshall, Little Rock, AR 72202, USA
- Accepted 29 August 2001
- retinal arteriovenous malformation
- intracranial arteriovenous malformation
- Bonnet-Dechaume-Blanc syndrome
Intracranial arteriovenous malformations are capable of spontaneous regression.1–3 There are also numerous recorded events of vascular remodelling, thrombosis, and autoinvolution in retinal arteriovenous malformations.4–7 This report documents a self obliterated retinal arteriovenous malformation in a patient with Bonnet-Dechaume-Blanc syndrome who developed neurological symptoms due to spontaneous regression of the intracranial component of the angiomatous malformation.
Case Report
A 32 year old man from Guam was evaluated for a history of right parietal headaches for several months and acquired temporal hemianopia in the left eye. He had a history of blindness in the right eye from early childhood, and had recently become aware of a temporal hemianopia in the left eye.
Visual acuity was no light perception in the right eye and 20/20 in the left …
