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Macular thickness changes in a patient with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy

BACKGROUND: Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) refers to an optic nerve dysfunction due to mutations in the mitochondrial DNA, resulting in visual loss by apoptosis of retinal ganglion cells (RGC). In 20% of LHON cases, their fundus examination looks entirely normal at early stage. There are...

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Autores principales: Mizoguchi, Ayako, Hashimoto, Yuki, Shinmei, Yasuhiro, Nozaki, Mayo, Ishijima, Kan, Tagawa, Yoshiaki, Ishida, Susumu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4373513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25885098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-015-0015-1