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Visual Diagnosis in Emergency Medicine|Articles in Press

A YOUNG MAN WITH PROPTOSIS

      A 32-year-old man with no significant medical history or recent trauma presented to the emergency department with blurred vision, proptosis, redness, and pain of the left eye, which had been increasing over the previous 2 weeks. The right eye was normal. Physical examination of the left eye revealed injection, proptosis, afferent pupillary defect, decreased visual acuity (OS 20/60, OD 20/20), increased intraocular pressure (IOP) (OS 31 mm Hg, OD 13 mm Hg), and an audible bruit of the left eye (Figure 1). His neurologic examination was otherwise normal.
      Figure 1
      Figure 1Patient photograph of left eye showing injected conjunctivae and proptosis (arrow).
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