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Good evening, clinical problem solvers.

Nice to see everyone after a long break.

Let's go ahead.

John, do you want to give us just the chief concern, chief complaint, and we'll go from there.

It is Diplopia.

Diplopia.

Excellent.

All right. See, big smiles from Valeria and Madalya. We're playing a game show. Big smiles from Madalena and Valeria on Diplopia. So we'll let you both take a crack at it. Valeria. Do you want to tell us what came to mind or why you're smiling so broadly for this chief concern as I am.

Yeah, I think for sure it's one of my favorite differential.

I was just by learning from you, actually.

So yeah, I definitely think Diplopia would think of a misalignment of the muscles of the eye.

So in that case, I would like to know if first if it's monocular or binocular dipolopia,

in which case you can follow the whole pathway of vision and muscle movements, so to speak. And usually I think the most, so the binocular diplopias the one in which there's this

misalignment of the eyes.

And, you know, going back from the nuclei of the cranial nerves that control the muscles,

it will go to the brain stem.

And then you can see the nerves that go out of the brain

stain nuclei, in which case, you know, you can have something that happens to the nerve,

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