Oculomotrice Paralysis During Diabetes: A Case Report at IOTA Teaching Hospital

Seydou Bakayoko, Rodrigue Romuald Elien, G. Y.^*, Mahamat Adam Dicko, Aly Sylla, Innocent Adubango Mananu & Tembely Marcel Lamine Traore

Hospital and University Center of the Institute of Tropical Ophthalmology of Africa (CHU-IOTA) of the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Bamako, Mali

Dr. Rodrigue Romuald Elien, G. Y., Hospital and University Center of the Institute of Tropical Ophthalmology of Africa (CHU-IOTA) of the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Bamako, Mali.

Keywords: Oculomotor Paralysis; Diabetes; Complication; Mali

Abstract

Objectives
To describe the clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary profiles of oculomotor paralysis during diabetes at IOTA-Teaching Hospital.
Patients and Methods
We describe the case of a patient who was diagnosed with oculomotor paralysis.
Observations
Our patient is 80 years old, with type 2 diabetes antecedent for 10 years under hypoglycemic sulfamides, poorly balanced, and uncomplicated, who presented 03 days before his admission of headaches, left periorbital pain with progressive eye ptosis, After ophthalmological examination, neurological and orbital-computed tomography encephalopathy was diagnosed as a secondary common oculomotor paralysis of diabetic neuropathy. The evolution after 3 months was marked by the progressive regression of ptosis after glycemic balance.

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