Treatable blindness in temporal arteritis.
case_report · Level V
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Blindness
- Giant Cell Arteritis
- Optic Nerve Diseases