The following site has a lot of information on Antons syndrome including
research articles.

https://www.malacards.org/card/antons_syndrome#clinical_features

Thank you,

Aditi

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:40 PM Carolyn Biglow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Have you considered searching these resources?
>
> - Orphanet or other rare disease databases
> - Scopus
> - Embase
> - TRIP database
>
> Carolyn Biglow
>
> On Wednesday, December 30, 2020, Harman, Susan E. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I have another one of those search requests that probably doesn't have a
> > really good answer.
> >
> > One of our medical students was given the following article: Kim N. Anton
> > syndrome as a result of MS exacerbation. Neurol Clin Pract 2017
> > Apr;7(2):e19-e22.
> >
> > Anton(s) syndrome or visual anosognosia (lack of awareness and denial of
> > blindness) is apparently very rare.  According to the articles "only 28
> > cases have been published between 1965 and 2016."  I'm assuming the
> author
> > found this information by doing a literature search when she was writing
> up
> > her case report.
> >
> > You guessed it, the student's attending wants to know if there have been
> > other case reports since this article and, if so, how many.  Most of the
> > general articles I've found on Anton syndrome since 2017 repeat this same
> > statement about 28 cases.  The article itself only has a few related
> > articles, mainly letters commenting on it.  When I try 'find similar' in
> > Ovid the search goes off into the MS aspect.  Interestingly, the similar
> > function in PubMed (which I'm not as familiar with) returns more
> citations,
> > but they don't seem particularly relevant either.  Anton syndrome is
> > similar to Anton-Babinski syndrome and cortical blindness, but apparently
> > not quite the same.
> >
> > I did a Medline search with the textwords and limited to Case Reports and
> > the last 5 years.  This gave me 28 articles.  I did a few other more
> > general searches in Medline and CINAHL.  UpToDate and several Google
> > searches didn't help much.  The ophthalmology textbooks we have in print
> > and online aren't that helpful.  I could go back and search visual
> > anosognosia to see if that brings up any different articles.
> >
> > It seems to me the most fruitful tactic would be to take citations found
> > by searching anton$ and case reports and just look through them.  That
> > would be a pain, but I'm not sure what else to suggest.  I could try
> > emailing the author of the original article, but I'm not sure how much
> of a
> > response I'd get.
> >
> > I'm still the in holiday doldrums, so if any of you have suggestions on a
> > better way to look for this information, please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Susan E. Harman, MSLS
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