Symptomatic visual snow in acute ischemic stroke: A case series.

Scutelnic, Adrian; Slavova, Nedelina; Klein, Antonia; Horvath, Thomas; De Beukelaer, Sophie A L; Arnold, Marcel; Jung, Simon; Schankin, Christoph J (2023). Symptomatic visual snow in acute ischemic stroke: A case series. Headache, 63(1), pp. 173-176. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/head.14445

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Visual snow is the main symptom of visual snow syndrome, a disorder of predominantly visual disturbances initially described in patients without abnormalities on ancillary investigations. We present a case series of patients with visual snow in the setting of acute ischemic stroke. The first and second patient reported previous episodic visual snow with migraine attacks. The third patient experienced visual snow for the first time during the ischemic stroke. In the first patient, the ischemic stroke affected the right and left precuneus and the right lingual gyrus. In the second patient, the ischemic stroke was located in the left lingual gyrus, parts of the left fusiform and parahippocampal gyrus, left dorso-lateral thalamus, and left cerebellar hemisphere. In the third patient, occipital pole, trunk of the corpus callosum on the right, right paramedian pons, right cerebellar hemisphere, and vermis were affected. Our case series indicates that the symptom visual snow can be caused by vascular lesions in areas of visual processing. Because patients did not meet criteria for visual snow syndrome, dysfunction in the affected areas might only explain part of the complex pathophysiology of visual snow syndrome.

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