Visual signs and symptoms in patients with the visual variant of Alzheimer disease

BMC Ophthalmology

Table 1 Patients’ characteristics and radiological findings

Patient	Sex	Age (yrs)	Chief complaint (s)	Distance VA	Near VA	Visual field	Ishihara plates	Color naming	Dys-lexia	Dys-graphia	Simult-agnosia	Dys-calculia	Cerebral MRI (cortical atrophy)	Functional cerebral imaging (decreased metabolism/perfusion)
1	M	58	Difficulty reading & writing	20/25	J 16	L hemianopsia	0/13	normal	+	+	+	+	Posterior	N.a.
2	F	59	Difficulty reading	20/20	J 4	L hemianopsia	0/13	normal	+	+	+	+	Parieto-temporal	PET: R > L parietooccipital
3	F	61	Difficulty reading	20/20	J 12	R hemianopsia	0/13	normal	+	+	+	+	L > R posterior	N.a.
4	M	62	Difficulty reading	20/20	J 3	not reliable	0/13	abnormal	+	+	+	+	bilateral parietooccipital	SPECT: parietooccipital
5	M	62	Visual blur	20/50	J 3	R hemianopsia	6/13	normal	-	+	-	-	Posterior	PET: parietooccipital
6	F	65	Visual blur	20/63	J 8	L hemianopsia	3/13	N.a.	+	+	+	+	Posterior	PET: parietooccipital
7	F	68	Difficulty reading	20/25	J 6	R quadranopsia	0/13	normal	+	-	+	-	L > R partietooccipital	PET: parietooccipital
8	M	70	Difficulty reading & writing	20/63	J 8	R quadranopsia	0/13	normal	+	+	+	+	Posterior	SPECT: parietooccipital
9	F	70	Difficulty reading	20/25	J 4	R hemianopsia	0/13	normal	+	-	-	-	L partietooccipital	PET: L > R parietooccipital
10	F	82	Difficulty reading & writing	20/32	J 6	R caeco-central, L arcuate	0/13	normal	+	+	+	-	Posterior	N.a.

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