Bilateral Hypermetropia, Myelinated Retinal Nerve Fibers, and Amblyopia

A 14-year-old hyperopic female with poor vision in both eyes was evaluated for ophthalmic and systemic diseases. The patient had bilateral retinal fiber myelination and greater vision loss in the more hyperopic eye. This was a rare case of reverse Straatsma syndrome, the clinical presentation which...

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Autores principales: Shenoy, Radha, Bialasiewicz, Alexander A., Al Barwani, B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21572738
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.75891
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Bialasiewicz, Alexander A.
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description A 14-year-old hyperopic female with poor vision in both eyes was evaluated for ophthalmic and systemic diseases. The patient had bilateral retinal fiber myelination and greater vision loss in the more hyperopic eye. This was a rare case of reverse Straatsma syndrome, the clinical presentation which may be accompanied with significant vision loss.
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spelling pubmed-30851562011-05-13 Bilateral Hypermetropia, Myelinated Retinal Nerve Fibers, and Amblyopia Shenoy, Radha Bialasiewicz, Alexander A. Al Barwani, B. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report A 14-year-old hyperopic female with poor vision in both eyes was evaluated for ophthalmic and systemic diseases. The patient had bilateral retinal fiber myelination and greater vision loss in the more hyperopic eye. This was a rare case of reverse Straatsma syndrome, the clinical presentation which may be accompanied with significant vision loss. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3085156/ /pubmed/21572738 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.75891 Text en © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shenoy, Radha
Bialasiewicz, Alexander A.
Al Barwani, B.
Bilateral Hypermetropia, Myelinated Retinal Nerve Fibers, and Amblyopia
title Bilateral Hypermetropia, Myelinated Retinal Nerve Fibers, and Amblyopia
title_full Bilateral Hypermetropia, Myelinated Retinal Nerve Fibers, and Amblyopia
title_fullStr Bilateral Hypermetropia, Myelinated Retinal Nerve Fibers, and Amblyopia
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Hypermetropia, Myelinated Retinal Nerve Fibers, and Amblyopia
title_short Bilateral Hypermetropia, Myelinated Retinal Nerve Fibers, and Amblyopia
title_sort bilateral hypermetropia, myelinated retinal nerve fibers, and amblyopia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21572738
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.75891
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