Bilateral Syphilitic Optic Neuropathy with Secondary Autoimmune Optic Neuropathy and Poor Visual Outcome
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منابع مشابه
[Autoimmune optic neuropathy: case report].
We report on a 9-year-old female patient who had bilateral severe visual loss and was treated with oral corticosteroids. Visual improvement occurred in one eye. Nine years later she presented relapse of visual loss in her only seeing eye. Pulse corticosteroid therapy resulted in dramatic visual improvement followed, however, by progressive and complete visual loss as soon as the corticosteroid ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Ophthalmology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1663-2699
DOI: 10.1159/000496142