Improvement of central visual function following steroid pulse therapy in acute zonal occult outer retinopathy

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 249-254

  Kitakawa, Takaaki ^a,b   Hayashi, Takaaki ^a   Takashina, Hirotsugu ^b   Mitooka, Katsuya ^b   Gekka, Tamaki ^a   Tsuneoka, Hiroshi ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Focal macular electroretinography; Inner segment outer segment junction; Optical coherence tomography; Steroid pulse therapy; Visual field

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PREDNISOLONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ACUTE ZONAL OCCULT OUTER RETINOPATHY; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FUNDUS CAMERA; HUMAN; HUMPHREY PERIMETER; MACULAR THICKNESS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; PHOTOPSIA; PHOTORECEPTOR INNER SEGMENT; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOPATHY; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA DISEASE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE HEMISUCCINATE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PREDNISOLONE; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; RETINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84865068843     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: 15732622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10633-012-9318-1     Document Type: Article

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