OPTIC DISC EDEMA ASSOCIATED WITH SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION

A 58-year-old man presented with optic disc edema as a rare associatio n with spinocerebellar degeneration (SCD). The patient also had chroni c idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction with hypoalbuminemia. No el evation of intraspinal pressure and no intracranial lesion was observe d. The hypoalbuminemia reacted promptly to treatment, whereas the opti c disc edema regressed gradually. An association between SCD and optic atrophy has often been described, but to our knowledge this is the fi rst report of SCD in association with optic disc edema.