Maintenance of pupillary response in a Glaucoma patient with no light perception due to persistence of melanopsin ganglion cells

Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zhou, Yang ^a   Davis, Alexander S ^b,c   Spitze, Arielle ^c   Lee, Andrew G ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; BIMATOPROST; BRIMONIDINE PLUS TIMOLOL; CLOPIDOGREL; ESOMEPRAZOLE; EYE DROPS; HLA B27 ANTIGEN; MELANOPSIN; STEROID; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; LETTER; LIGHT; NERVE CELL; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PUPIL REFLEX; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETINA VASCULITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UVEITIS;

BLINDNESS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROD OPSINS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84901390482     PISSN: 00084182     EISSN: 17153360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjo.2013.10.008     Document Type: Letter

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