Prothrombotic and atherosclerotic risk factors lack significance in NAION patients harbouring mitochondrial DNA mutations [7]

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 119-120

  Abu Amero, Khaled K ^a   Bosley, T M ^b  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING KHALED EYE SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTHROMBIN;

ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ARTERITIC ANTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 29744455638     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2005.078071     Document Type: Letter

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