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Warm-up

·         What is a medical case report?

·         What parts does it include?

·         What is an abstract?

Read the abstract of the medical case report:

Successful trabeculotomy in a patient with corticosteroid-induced glaucoma with anti-aquaporin 4 antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica: a case report

Abstract

Introduction

Corticosteroid therapy is a first-choice treatment for anti-aquaporin 4 antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica. Although we expected corticosteroid-induced glaucoma as a potential complication of the therapy, there are no reports in the literature describing it. In this report, we describe a case of successful trabeculotomy performed on a patient with corticosteroid-induced glaucoma and anti-aquaporin 4 antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica.

Case presentation

A 40-year-old Japanese woman who was given prednisolone orally after the diagnosis of anti-aquaporin 4 antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica experienced acute, painful loss of vision in her right eye. Although her right eye intra-ocular pressure was increased, we considered the main cause of her recent visual disturbance to be neuromyelitis optica because her right eye visual acuity declined to no light perception within a short period with a marked central scotoma. We treated our patient with high-dose methylprednisolone and double-filtration plasmapheresis; however, no improvement was observed. After we performed trabeculotomy in her right eye, our patient’s post-operative intra-ocular pressure was maintained within the normal range. Her visual acuity drastically improved soon after the decrease of intra-ocular pressure.

Conclusions

Both neuromyelitis optica and glaucoma caused our patient’s visual disturbance, and clinicians should plan for treatment of both neuromyelitis optica and glaucoma in such cases.

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·         Background

·         Why is it important

·         Needs to be reported

Answer the questions:

1.       Is this the first report of this kind in the literature?

2.       What are brief details of what the patient(s) presented with?

3.       What the reader should learn from the case report?

4.       What the clinical impact will be?

5.       Is it an original case report of interest to a particular clinical specialty of medicine?

6.       Will it have a broader clinical impact across medicine?

7.       Are any teaching points identified?

Follow-up

·         Why abstract is the most important part for case published in electronic databases?

·         What are basics of abstract writing?