History Taking and Management of a Patient Presenting with Sudden Loss of Vision

Areas to focus on: retinal diseases (retinal detachment, retinal artery or vein occlusion), optic neuropathies (optic neuritis, giant cell arteritis, stroke, acute angle-closure glaucoma, cerebral mass like meningioma, or pituitary adenoma), neuro-retinitis due to infectious (cat scratch disease) or inflammatory causes (sarcoidosis, Behcet disease, polyarteritis nodosa). Other causes (vitreous hemorrhage/detachment, age related macular degeneration (AMD), eye trauma (hyphema, corneal abrasion), functional or psychogenic vision loss.