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Tobacco-Alcohol Toxic Optic Neuropathy
Farah Sunnar Constantin1,2, Monica Irina Ion1, Andrei Erol Constantin3
1Department of Ophthalmology, Clinical Emergency County Hospital, Constanţa, Romania.
Abstract:
Purpose. To present the case of a 34-year-old man with sudden bilateral decrease of visual acuity, followed by a complete and fast recovery. Material and methods. We reported a case of an apparently healthy 34-year-old patient with sudden and unpainful decrease of visual acuity, presumed of toxic etiology. The patient was treated at the debut of the symptomatology, thus having a favorable evolution during hospitalization, with the full recovery of his visual acuity, without complications. Conclusions. Tobacco-Alcohol Toxic Optic Neuropathy has an unknown pathophysiological mechanism that allows very good recovery of visual acuity, if treated early.
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