Visual Aura Secondary to Supratentorial Lipomatous Meningioma: A Rare Case Report by Pierfrancesco Lapolla, Placido Bruzzaniti, Giuseppa Zancana, Antonella Stoppacciaro, Michela Relucenti, Rui Chen, Xiaobo Li, Andrea Mingoli, Alessandro Frati, Pietro Familiari

“…Case Report: A 55-year-old woman presented with a migraine and reported having phosphenes in recent years. Head Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans were performed; these showed an extensive hypodense and hypointense formation located in the left parieto-occipital region. …”
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Clinical experience in the Hospital Central Militar with bilateral deep brain stimulation of ventro-medial globus pallidus in patients with Parkinson's disease by Francisco Meneses-Rodríguez, Ricardo Y. Sánchez, Humberto Carrasco-Vargas, Abenamar Samano-Osuna, Fiacro Jiménez-Ponce

“…The collateral effects such as phosphenes, contralateral paresthesias, deviation of labial commissure and dysarthria, were avoided with the adjustment of stimulation parameters during the surgery. …”
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Evaluation of Clinical outcomes of Generic versus Reference Ivabradine in Heart Failure Patients by Hadeer Eid, Hazem Khorshid, Ahmed Elsherif, Ebtissam Darweesh, Nagwa Ali Sabri, Naglaa Bazan

“…Only minor side effects, mainly phosphenes were observed in both products. No mortality was demonstrated in both groups. …”
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Rapidly progressive glomerulopathy in a patient with hepatitis C virus not diagnosed. Case Report. by Oscar G. Galindo-Contreras, Alfredo Lom-García, Jimena Sánchez-Zumaya, Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez, Clara C. Sánchez-Rodríguez

“…She suddenly presented lower extremity edema, headache, phosphenes, hypertensive uncontrol, hematuria, proteinuria and decreased glomerular filtration. …”
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Improving the conditions of regional hemodinamics of the eyes as a method of treatment in optic neuropathy at short-sightedness of high degree. by N. G. Zavgorodnyaya, O. O. Denisova, N. A. Vesnina, N. A. Kudinova- Savchenko

“…Assessing the functional activity of the peripheral parts of the retina , the data to increase sensitivity threshold for phosphenes to 78,54 ± 5,42 mA in the main group and 76,42 ± 3,25 mA in the control prior to treatment. …”
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Ivabradine for the Prevention of Anthracycline-Induced Cardiotoxicity in Female Patients with Primarily Breast Cancer: A Prospective, Randomized, Open-Label Clinical Trial by Eglė Čiburienė, Sigita Aidietienė, Greta Ščerbickaitė, Eglė Sadauskienė, Diana Sudavičienė, Edita Baltruškevičienė, Birutė Brasiūnienė, Monika Drobnienė, Jelena Čelutkienė

“…However, visual side effects (phosphenes) were reported in 14.3% of patients. <i>Conclusions:</i> Ivabradine is a safe, well-tolerated drug that has shown possible cardioprotective properties reducing the incidence of mild asymptomatic cancer-therapy-induced cardiac dysfunction, characterised by a new rise in troponin concentrations and diminished myocardial performance in anthracycline-treated women with breast cancer and increased heart rate. …”
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