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Downbeat nystagmus with a pseudocycloid waveform: Improvement with base‐out prisms
Author(s) -
Lavin P. J. M.,
Traccis S.,
Dell'Osso L. F.,
Abel L. A.,
Ellenberger C.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.410130607
Subject(s) - audiology , base (topology) , nystagmus , medicine , waveform , physical medicine and rehabilitation , computer science , mathematics , telecommunications , mathematical analysis , radar
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.