A Retrospective Chart Review Study Comparing Elevated and Normal C-Reactive Protein (C-RP) Groups in NAION Patients: Demographics, Visual Functions on Admission and Follow-up

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Identifier 20120214_nanos_posters_097
Title A Retrospective Chart Review Study Comparing Elevated and Normal C-Reactive Protein (C-RP) Groups in NAION Patients: Demographics, Visual Functions on Admission and Follow-up
Creator Haneen Jabaly-Habib; Essam El-Matbouly Saber; Mizhir Atallah; Shireen Hamed-Azzam; Elan Feldman; Shmuel Graffe; Daniel Briscoe
Affiliation (HJ) (MA) (SH) (EF) (SG) (DB) HaEmek Medical Center, Afula, Israel; (EES) Banha University, Banha, Egypt
Subject NAION; Elevated C-RP; Risk Factor; retrospective
Description Elevated C-RP/ ESR in a patient with swollen disc and visual loss is suggestive of temporal arteritis (arteritic AION). Still there are patients who present as NAION with elevated C-RP with no clinical signs of temporal arteritis, and uneventful follow-up.
Date 2012-02-14
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source 2012 North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting
Relation is Part of NANOS 2012: Poster Presentations
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Holding Institution North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Association. NANOS Executive Office 5841 Cedar Lake Road, Suite 204, Minneapolis, MN 55416
Rights Management Copyright 2012. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s6s78nv5
Context URL The NANOS Annual Meeting Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/NAM/toc/
Setname ehsl_novel_nam
ID 181927
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s78nv5
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