ReviewNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2021
Not All Cases of Visual Snows are Benign: Mimics of Visual Snow Syndrome.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Visual Snow Syndrome: Therapeutic Implications.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- How do I recognise and manage visual snow syndrome?Eye (London, England) · 2024Review
- What does visual snow look like? Quantification by matching a simulation.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Visual Snow Syndrome in Patient with Migraine: Case Report and Literature Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Understanding visual perception in visual snow syndrome: a battery of psychophysical tests plus the 30-day clinical diary.Brain communications · 2024Article
- Differential Diagnosis of Visual Phenomena Associated with Migraine: Spotlight on Aura and Visual Snow Syndrome.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Traumatic brain injury: Mechanisms, manifestations, and visual sequelae.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Case Report: A Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Heidenhain Variant Simulating PRES.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Case report: Visual snow as the presenting symptom in multiple evanescent white dot syndrome. Two case reports and literature review.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Visual snow syndrome (VSS) is a clinical disorder characterized by pan-field visual disturbance. It is a diagnosis of exclusion since its pathophysiology remains unknown. Excluding other mimics is of great significance since some serious pathologies can have secondary visual snow (VS) as an initial presentation. Delayed or incorrect diagnosis of these VSS mimics may lead to permanent vision loss or even death. The purpose of this review is to help physicians distinguish VSS mimics promptly to avoid bad outcomes. The authors performed a PubMed literature search of articles, case reports, and reviews describing VS symptoms in patients with underlying diseases other than VSS. The red flags of secondary VS symptoms were highlighted, such as new-onset or intermittent VS, unilateral or quadrant VS, and accompanied ocular or neurological deficits. There are four main categories of VSS mimics, ie, including neurological disorders, ocular pathologies, drug-related VS, and other systemic diseases. The physicians could largely exclude most etiologies based on history taking, ophthalmologic and neurologic examinations, and neuroimaging. Further research in VS should carefully define and unify the inclusion and exclusion criteria of this disorder and investigate these secondary VS conditions and their pathogenesis.
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