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Neuroretinitis: A Teenager with Painless Vision Loss

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A 15-year-old boy with a past medical history of asthma presented with 3 days of painless vision loss in his left eye. He reported a mild headache for the past week. He denied any preceding ocular injury, illness, infectious exposure, or recent travel. He was born in El Salvador and moved to the United States at the age of 10. He lived at home with his parents and several cats.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Nina Boal & Crandall E. Peeler

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Gena Heidary

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Paul H. Phillips

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Boal, N., Peeler, C.E. (2023). Neuroretinitis: A Teenager with Painless Vision Loss. In: Heidary, G., Phillips, P.H. (eds) Fundamentals of Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16147-6_13

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