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Susac's Syndrome is an autoimune disease that affects the



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Brain	Eye	Inner Ear
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Headache (often migraine-like)	Visual disturbance; visual field deficit	Hearing loss
Short term memory difficulty	The patient notes an area within their field of vision in which they "can't see anything."	Tinnitus (ringing, or buzzing in ear---often "roaring")
Slow thought processing	Patients describe these areas as a "dark spot," "black spot," "pink spot," or a "hole" in their visual field.	Vertigo (whirling dizziness)
Confusion	The medical term for this phenomenon is scotoma.	Loss of balance
Impaired decision-making and judgment	Loss of peripheral vision
Other cognitive dysfunction

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