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Dynamic Visual Tests to Identify and Quantify Visual Damage and Repair Following Demyelination in Optic Neuritis Patients
Published on: April 14, 2014
[HIV infection presenting with bilateral optic neuropathy]
C Laurent-Coriat1, C Tilikete, D Bouhour
1Unité de Neuro-Ophtalmologie, Hôpital Neurologique et Université Claude Bernard Lyon I.
Abstract:
We report the case of a 57-year-old man who presented bilateral subacute and painless optic neuropathy after meningopolyradiculitis revealing a primary human immunodeficiency virus infection. Both antiretroviral and steroid treatments were ineffective. Clinical symptoms and evolutive pattern were consistent with a mechanism of microvascular ischaemia of the optic nerve head. Optic neuropathies related to HIV infection are rare compared to those resulting from opportunistic infections. There are several pathophysiological mechanisms involved.
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