Lose the Nintendo and thou shall be healed! Restoring vision in malingering

Michel van Lint; Dave Kloeck; Elisabeth H van Aken

doi:10.3205/oc000192

Lose the Nintendo and thou shall be healed! Restoring vision in malingering

GMS Ophthalmol Cases. 2022 Feb 8:12:Doc05. doi: 10.3205/oc000192. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Michel van Lint^{1

2}, Dave Kloeck^{1

2}, Elisabeth H van Aken³

Affiliations

¹ Antwerp University Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology Edegem, Belgium.
² Antwerp University, Faculty of Medicine Wilrijk, Belgium.
³ Ghent University Hospital, Department of Head and Skin, Ghent, Belgium.

Abstract

Non-organic visual loss can be hard to prove or explain to the parents of affected children at times. Here, we describe a simple yet effective approach that may help solve both issues by ensuring that the patient refrains from visual stimuli.

Keywords: malingering; non-organic visual loss.

Publication types

Case Reports