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A 61-year-old man presented to the emergency department with transient monocular vision loss on three occasions over 2 weeks. The episodes of progressive vision loss in the left eye each lasted between 1 and 20 min, described as a ‘curtain being drawn’ and disappeared without additional symptoms or headache. He had smoked heavily until 3 years before, when he was diagnosed with hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus. His blood pressure and …
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Contributors FB: conception, design, acquisition, analysis, interpretation of data, drafting of text and final approval. IS: analysis, interpretation of data, drafting of text and final approval. FB: agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work and ensures that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work will be appropriately investigated and resolved.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed. This paper was reviewed by Christian Lueck, Canberra, Australia.
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