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Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. A Clinical Case
O. I. Karushin, I. Z. Gafarov
Российский офтальмологический журнал, Vol 9, Iss 2, Pp 84-89 (2018)
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| Title | Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. A Clinical Case |
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| Authors | O. I. Karushin, I. Z. Gafarov |
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2018
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Российский офтальмологический журнал, Vol 9, Iss 2, Pp 84-89 (2018)
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| Description |
Leber’s heredltary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a mitochondrial disease, which leads, in young age, to a gradual bilateral reduction of visual acuity unaccompanied by pain in the eyeballs. At present, no methods of effective prevention and treatment of LHON are known. The paper presents a clinical case of LHON in which visual functions improved following a revascularizing operation (optic nerve revascularization combined with therapeutic retrofilling of sclera) which used Alloplant biomaterial // Russian Ophthalmological Journal, 2016; 2: 84-9 . doi: 10.21516/2072-0076-2016-9-2-84-89 .
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| Document Type |
article
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| Language |
Russian
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| Publisher Information |
Real Time Ltd, 2018.
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