Table 3 Proposed list of all EVS of migraine aura and their description
From: Clinical features of visual migraine aura: a systematic review
Proposed Name | Description |
|---|---|
1. Bright lightc | Single area of bright light |
2. Foggy/blurred vision | Foggy or blurred vision |
3. Zigzag linesac | Zigzag or jagged lines |
4. Scotoma | Single blind area |
5. Scotomata | Several blind/black areas |
6. Small bright dotsc | Small bright dots/stars |
7. White dots/round formsabc | Medium sized white dots/round forms |
8. Colored dots/round formsabc | Medium sized coloured dots/round forms |
9. Lines (colored lines)abc | Lines (colored lines) |
10. Geometrical shapesabc | Geometrical shapes |
11. ’Like looking through heat waves, water or oil’ | ’Like looking through heat waves, water or oil’ |
12. Visual snow | Dynamic, continuous, tiny dots usually black/gray on white background and gray/white on black background |
13. ‘Bean-like’ formsabc | ‘Bean-like’ forms like a crescent or C-shaped |
14. Hemianopsia | Blindness of half of the visual field |
15. Deformed images | Deformed images (alteration of lines/angles) |
16. Tunnel vision | Blindness in the whole periphery |
17. Oscillopsia | Movement of stationary objects |
18. Mosaic vision | Seeing mosaic-like |
19. Fractured objects | Seeing fractured objects |
20. Corona effectabc | An extra edge on objects |
21. Anopia | Total blindness |
22. Micropsia | Objects appear smaller or more distant than they actually are |
23. Macropsia | Objects appear larger or closer than they actually are |
24. Like a negative film | Seeing like a negative film |
25. Complex hallucinationsac | Visual perception of something not present (e.g. objects, animals, and persons) |