Early Clinical and Subclinical Visual Evoked Potential and Humphrey's Visual Field Defects in Cryptococcal Meningitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Moodley, Anand ^a,c   Rae, William ^b   Bhigjee, Ahmed ^c   Connolly, Cathy ^d   Devparsad, Natasha ^a   Michowicz, Andrew ^e   Harrison, Thomas ^f   Loyse, Angela ^f  

^a GREY'S HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^e EDENDALE HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^f ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTIC NEURITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871378477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052895     Document Type: Article

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