Cigarette Smoking and Activities of Daily Living in Ocular Myasthenia Gravis

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Title Cigarette Smoking and Activities of Daily Living in Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
Creator Sean M. Gratton, MD; Angela M. Herro, MD; William J. Feuer, MS; Byron L. Lam, MD
Affiliation Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (SMG, AMH, WJF, BLL), University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Departments of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SMG) and Ophthalmology (SMG), University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri
Abstract Infrared confocal scanning laser photography of a patient with long-standing optic tract lesion revealed a homonymous hemianopic hyporeflective image contralateral to the visual field defect. Spectral domain optical coherence tomography showed thinning of the retinal nerve fiber and retinal ganglion cell layer and thickening of the inner nuclear layer (with microcystic degeneration) in the macular area, matching the infrared image. Hyporeflective image on infrared laser photography is associated with retinal degeneration secondary to anterior visual pathway disease and, when located in homonymous hemianopic retinas, may represent a new sign of an optic tract lesion.
Subject Activities of Daily Living; Adult; Older people; Older people, 80 and over; Autoantibodies; Cholinesterase Inhibitors; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Glucocorticoids; Humans; Male; Middle Older people; Muscle Weakness; Myasthenia Gravis; Oculomotor Muscles; Prednisone; Prospective Studies; Pyridostigmine Bromide; Receptors, Cholinergic; Smoking; Smoking Cessation; Young Adult
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Date 2016-03
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
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Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 1276452
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6323qcw
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