The impact of gender on recovery from acute optic neuritis

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Identifier 20120214_nanos_posters_015
Title The impact of gender on recovery from acute optic neuritis
Creator Fiona Costello; Jodie Burton; Jessie Trufyn; William Hodge; Y. Irene Pan
Affiliation University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Subject O\ptic Neuritis; Gender; Multiple Sclerosis; Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer; Optical Coherence Tomography
Description Optic neuritis (ON) is an inflammatory injury of the optic nerve, which represents the first clinical manifestation of multiple sclerosis (MS) in 20% of patients. Most ON patients are young women, albeit the basis of the female predilection remains unclear.
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: NANOS Annual Meeting Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/nanos-annual-meeting-collection/
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright 2012. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s6545v4g
Setname ehsl_novel_nam
ID 181986
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6545v4g
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