Namrata Nandakumar, MD

A 52-year-old man presented to our clinic with a chief complaint of visual loss in his left eye after an altercation with his roommate. The patient reported that he was punched in his face multiple times, kicked in the back of his head and lost consciousness for an unspecified amount of time. When he awoke, EMS was at the scene, and he could not see anything out of his left eye. An hour later he was able to see out of a small area in the center of his vision. He had no flashes, floaters or eye pain.

A 59-year-old man was referred to our practice for evaluation of decreased vision in the left eye for the past 5 days. He noted flashes of light and a curtain in the superior hemisphere of his vision. There was no history of trauma.

A 71-year-old man was referred to our practice for evaluation of a chronically red left eye for the past 3 months. There was no associated discharge or pain. He also initially noted blurry vision in the left eye while watching a football game 3 months ago. Since that point, he feels the blurry vision has progressively worsened. Two months prior to presentation, he developed binocular diplopia on upgaze, which has persisted. There was no history of trauma.

A 24-year-old Caucasian woman presented with a 10-day history of intermittent flashing lights and a dark spot in the temporal aspect of her left eye. There was no associated pain, headache, floaters, shadows or recent viral illness. She had no significant ocular history or medical history, had no known drug allergies and was on no medications.

A 33-year-old man of Indian origin presented with a 10-day history of increased floaters and blurry vision in his left eye. He denied photopsias, eye redness or pain.

Jeffrey Chang Vivek Chaturvedi A 29-year-old white man presented to the Lahey Clinic for a routine eye exam. His medical and ocular histories were notable for a recent diagnosis of hypertension that was well-controlled with metoprolol, arthroscopic surgery on his right knee for a torn anterior cruciate ligament and myopia. He works in a software company, has no history of smoking or illicit drug use, and drinks alcohol socially. To his knowledge, there is no family history of ocular or systemic diseases.