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Treatment and Outcomes in Nutritional Optic Neuropathy.
Curr Treat Options Neurol
February 2019
Department of Neurology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
Purpose Of Review: Nutritional optic neuropathy is a potential cause of severe visual loss; however, appropriate and timely management can result in excellent visual outcomes. The purpose of this review is to outline our current understanding of the treatment and outcomes for nutritional optic neuropathy.
Recent Findings: Current understanding of nutritional optic neuropathy has been greatly aided by some well-reported and investigated epidemics of the condition, most notably the Cuban epidemic optic neuropathy of the early 1990s.
Nutritional optic neuropathy instead of tobacco-alcohol amblyopia.
Can J Ophthalmol
October 2017
Poznan City Hospital, Poznan, Poland.
Effect of chronic alcohol and tobacco use on retinal nerve fibre layer thickness: a case-control study.
BMJ Open Ophthalmol
November 2016
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India.
Objective: To identify the effects of chronic alcohol and/or tobacco use on retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness and to find the association between severity of addiction with RNFL thinning.
Methodology: A case-control study was performed in 200 eyes of cases and 200 healthy control eyes. Cases were recruited from deaddiction clinic having history of alcohol and/or tobacco use for at least 5 years.
Part of the large group of nutritional and toxic optic neuropathies, tobacco-alcohol optic neuropathy is a disease often underdiagnosed or detected at a stage when the full recovery of vision is not possible. This article summarizes its signs and symptoms, describes the pathophysiological processes involved and provides the necessary information for diagnosis and treatment of the entity previously known as tobacco-alcohol amblyopia, reporting in the end, a challenging case along with its findings.
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