Walsh & Hoyt: Papilledema: Visual Prognosis

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Identifier wh_ch5_p255_2
Title Walsh & Hoyt: Papilledema: Visual Prognosis
Creator Deborah I. Friedman, MD, MPH
Affiliation Professor, Neurology & Neurotherapeutics, University of Texas Southwestern
Subject Optic Nerve Diseases; Eye Abnormalities; Visual Impairments; Optic Atrophy; Visual Prognosis; Edema; Raised Intracranial Pressure
Description Establishing the visual prognosis in a patient with papilledema is often impossible. Generally, the more severe the papilledema, the worse the visual prognosis. An ominous sign is narrowing of the retinal arteries, which often occurs with sheathing. In this setting, irreversible damage to the optic nerve tissue has already occurred, as is the case when there is loss of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer.
Date 2005
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 6th Edition
Relation is Part of Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Walsh and Hoyt Textbook Selections Collection: https://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright 2005. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
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Setname ehsl_novel_whts
ID 185711
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6768prx