Treatment of non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy with high-dose systemic corticosteroids

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1031-1032

  Rebolleda, Gema ^a   Pérez López, Marta ^b   Casas Llera, Pilar ^c   Muñoz Negrete, Francisco José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b Unidad de Anatomía Patológica   (Spain)

^c VISSUM Corporacion Oftalmologica   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE;

ANOREXIA; ANTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MOOD CHANGE; NAUSEA; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VOMITING;

FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC; PREDNISONE;

EID: 84877114334     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-012-2063-z     Document Type: Letter

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