Binasal hemianopia caused by bilateral optic perineuritis due to sarcoidosis

Nozomu Tawara; Shunya Nakane; Noritaka Kudo; Takayuki Kosaka; Koutaro Takamatsu; Kuniyasu Wada; Asako Kobayashi; Satoshi Yamashita; Naofumi Funagura; Toshihiro Inoue; Yukio Ando

doi:10.1016/j.ensci.2021.100354

Binasal hemianopia caused by bilateral optic perineuritis due to sarcoidosis

eNeurologicalSci. 2021 Jul 6:24:100354. doi: 10.1016/j.ensci.2021.100354. eCollection 2021 Sep.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 1-1-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan.
² Department of Neurology, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, 1-1, 2 Chome, Nagamineminami, Higasgi-ku, Kumamoto 861-8520, Japan.
³ Department of Neurology, Kumamoto Central Hospital, 2921, Haramizu, Kikuyo-machi, Kikuchi-gun, Kumamoto 869-1102, Japan.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 1-1-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan.

Abstract

•We describe the first case of binasal hemianopia due to bilateral optic perineuritis.•Bilateral optic perineuritis should be considered as a causative disease of binasal hemianopia.•Early diagnosis of optic perineuritis is crucial to avoid irreversible visual impairment.

Keywords: BNH, binasal hemianopia; Binasal hemianopia; CFF, central critical flicker frequency; GVF, Goldmann visual fields; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; OCT, ocular coherence tomography; ON, optic neuritis; OPN, optic perineuritis; Optic perineuritis; RNFL, retinal nerve fiber layer thickness.; Sarcoidosis.