Treatment of vitamin A deficiency retinopathy with sublingual vitamin A palmitate

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 137-145

  Singer, James R ^a   Bakall, Benjamin ^a,b   Gordon, Grant M ^a   Reddy, Rahul K ^a,b  

^a Associated Retina Consultants   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark adaptometry; ERG; mfERG; Visual fields; Vitamin A deficiency

Indexed keywords

RETINOL; RETINOL PALMITATE;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTHRITIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FUNDUS ALBIPUNCTATUS; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ILEUM BYPASS; INSOMNIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KERATOPATHY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIFOCAL ELECTRORETINOGRAM; NIGHT BLINDNESS; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RADIATION INJURY; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINA TEAR; RETINITIS; RETINITIS PUNCTATA ALBESCENS; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW; ROD CONE DYSTROPHY; VISUAL ACUITY CHART; VISUAL DISORDER; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BLOOD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; AGED; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; NIGHT BLINDNESS; RETINA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84961121491     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: 15732622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10633-016-9533-2     Document Type: Review

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