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Optic Atrophy.
BASIC CONSIDERATIONS Optic atrophy is a misleading term which, embedded by tradition and usage, resists precise definition. It is used when there is excessive pallor of the optic disc and is thus a physical sign and not a diagnosis. Since there are many causes of optic pallor, the term is usually reserved for those cases in which there is associated visual defect, either of fields or acuity, in...
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For many years, dating back to about 1930, neurosyphilis in general and primary optic atrophy of syphilitic origin in particular have been the subjects of special interest and repeated study in the Syphilis Division of the Department of Medicine and the Department of Ophthalmology of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. As to optic atrophy, Moore, Woods, and myself are responsible for the concepts and d...
متن کاملTabes dorsalis with special reference to primary optic atrophy.
For many years, dating back to about 1930, neurosyphilis in general and primary optic atrophy of syphilitic origin in particular have been the subjects of special interest and repeated study in the Syphilis Division of the Department of Medicine and the Department of Ophthalmology of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. As to optic atrophy, Moore, Woods, and myself are responsible for the concepts and d...
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LEBER'S disease, with its sudden onset in adolescence or early adult life, its rapid course, and puzzling mode of inheritance, has overshadowed other forms of inherited optic atrophy. The early literature contained many cases of "atypical" Leber's disease, but the continued emphasis on the established form, even in the monumental review by Bell (1931), hampered the emergence of other forms as s...
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UNLABELLED DEFINITION OF THE DISEASE: Dominant Optic Atrophy (DOA) is a neuro-ophthalmic condition characterized by a bilateral degeneration of the optic nerves, causing insidious visual loss, typically starting during the first decade of life. The disease affects primary the retinal ganglion cells (RGC) and their axons forming the optic nerve, which transfer the visual information from the pho...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Delhi Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0972-0200
DOI: 10.7869/djo.2013.26