Visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye

The left eye of a 65-year-old male was blind due to optic atrophy and only seeing eye had also dry type age-related macular degeneration. An anterior ischemic optic neuropathy developed in the better seeing eye. Vision recovered in the blind eye in a short time after losing the better eye. Gaining s...

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Autores principales: Örnek, Kemal, Örnek, Nurgül
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23626640
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description The left eye of a 65-year-old male was blind due to optic atrophy and only seeing eye had also dry type age-related macular degeneration. An anterior ischemic optic neuropathy developed in the better seeing eye. Vision recovered in the blind eye in a short time after losing the better eye. Gaining some vision in a blind eye may be an adaptation of visual pathway in such patients.
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spelling pubmed-36343012013-04-26 Visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye Örnek, Kemal Örnek, Nurgül J Res Med Sci Case Report The left eye of a 65-year-old male was blind due to optic atrophy and only seeing eye had also dry type age-related macular degeneration. An anterior ischemic optic neuropathy developed in the better seeing eye. Vision recovered in the blind eye in a short time after losing the better eye. Gaining some vision in a blind eye may be an adaptation of visual pathway in such patients. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3634301/ /pubmed/23626640 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Research in Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye
title Visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye
title_full Visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye
title_fullStr Visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye
title_full_unstemmed Visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye
title_short Visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye
title_sort visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634301/
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