Objectives: Upon completion of this conference the resident/student should be able to

• Describe the approach to the diagnosis of the patient with transient visual loss
• List the five key questions to ask in the work up of TVL
• List the differential diagnosis for monocular TVL
• Describe the workup, prognosis and treatment for embolic causes of TVL
• List the differential diagnosis for binocular TVL

Assignment: Please prepare for this conference by reading Chapter 5: The patient with transient visual loss in the BCSC Neuro-ophthalmology book and this article. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25099097