Treatable blindness in temporal arteritis.
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 75 (7) , 432
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.75.7.432
Abstract
Temporal arteritis is a common cause of blindness. Prompt steroid treatment limits unilateral visual loss while protecting the contralateral eye. Established blindness is irreversible. We report a case of temporal arteritis in which an eye with no light perception secondary to an arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy regained 6/6 vision.Keywords
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