Chiasmal Enlargement and Optic Nerve Enhancement on Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy
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Chiasmal enlargement and optic nerve enhancement on magnetic resonance imaging in leber hereditary optic neuropathy.
May and colleagues each reported a case of endogenous endophthalmitis in patients with gingival disease that progressed to an abscess. In the latter case, the patient also had undergone a cavity filling 7 days before onset of symptoms. Our case of endogenous endophthalmitis was in an immunocompetent individual who underwent routine dental cleaning 10 days before seeing an ophthalmologist. She d...
متن کاملChiasmal Enlargement and Optic Nerve Enhancement on Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy
May and colleagues each reported a case of endogenous endophthalmitis in patients with gingival disease that progressed to an abscess. In the latter case, the patient also had undergone a cavity filling 7 days before onset of symptoms. Our case of endogenous endophthalmitis was in an immunocompetent individual who underwent routine dental cleaning 10 days before seeing an ophthalmologist. She d...
متن کاملLeber hereditary optic neuropathy.
BACKGROUND Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a cause of inherited blindness that typically presents with bilateral, painless, subacute visual failure in young adult males. Males are about four times more likely to be affected than females and 95% of LHON carriers become affected before the age of 50. Affected patients may have characteristic ocular fundal appearances and have evidence...
متن کاملLeber hereditary optic neuropathy
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy is a maternally inherited bilateral optic neuropathy that typically affects teenage males with acute vision loss first in one eye and then the other within days or weeks. The etiology involves a point mutation in the mitochondrial DNA at 1 of 3 main loci: 11778, 14484, or 3460. There are some distinctive changes in the ocular fundus appearance at various stages...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Ophthalmology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0003-9950
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.121.4.577