Optical Coherence Tomography Assessment before and after Vitamin Supplementation in a Patient with Vitamin A Deficiency

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Saenz De Viteri, Manuel ^a   Sádaba, Luis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CALCIFEDIOL; RETINOL; VITAMIN;

AGED; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL MACULAR THICKNESS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FUNDUS AUTOFLOURESCENCE; GANGLION CELL LAYER THICKNESS; GANGLION CELL PLUS INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER THICKNESS; HUMAN; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MACULAR THICKNESS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NIGHT BLINDNESS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA; TIME FACTOR; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

AGED; BARIATRIC SURGERY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; RETINA; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 84958259282     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000002680     Document Type: Article

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