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Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy | Discusses opthalmic complications of surgery, with example of shock-induced Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy following a hysterectomy. Presenting Symptom: Ischemia; Hypotension. Anatomy: Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic neuropathy, Ischemic; Hematoma; Edema. | Text |
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Atypical Optic Neuropathies | A discussion of atypical optic neuropathies. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disc. Pathology: Slides showing LHON. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic neuropathy, Ischemic; Optic atrophy, Hereditary, Leber; Toxic optic neuropathy. Presenting Symptom: Optic neuritis; Eye hemorrhage; Retinal vasculitis; Dyschromatop... | Text |
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Acute Retrobulbar Optical Neuropathy | PPT covering acute retrobulbar optic neuropathy, including ischemic, inflammatory, anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) and non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION); includes brainscan images for optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis; optic disk with LHON and PION. Anatomy: Opt... | Text |
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How Strong is the Case for an Association Between PDE5 Inhibitors and NAION? | Anatomy: Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic; Toxic optic neuropathy. Presenting Symptom: Ischemia; Scotoma; Dyschromatopsia. | Text |
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Viagra and Vision Loss: Does Sex Make You Blind? | At a formal debate during a meeting in Canada in Sept. 2006, Sadun was assigned the role of arguing the case FOR a connection between taking phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibitors and developing anterior ischemic optic neuropathy. Presenting Symptom: Hypotension. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disc; Cyc... | Text |
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Viagra and Vision Loss: Does Sex Make You Blind? | Presenting symptom: Hypotension. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disc; Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 5. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic; Toxic optic neuropathy. | Text |
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The Diagnostic Workup in Patients With Optic Neuropathies (Metodo diagnostico) | Slideshow presentation with images of optic disc with edema and "Positive temporal artery biopsy". Presenting Symptom: Hyperopia; Metamorphopsia. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Macula Lutea; Optic disc. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic neuritis; Macular edema; Optic neuropathy, Ischemic. | Text |
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Optic Nerve Sheath Decompression in the Management of Optic Neuropathies | A slide presentation with several images of optic disc, normal and with edema. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disc. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic neuropathy, Ischemic; Pseudotumor cerebri; Papilledema. Treatment: Decompression, Surgical. | Text |
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The Diagnostic Workup in Patients With Optic Neuropathies | Slideshow presentation with images of optic disc with edema and optic atrophy. Presenting Symptom: Telangiectasis; Dyschromatopsia; Scotoma. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disc; Phosphopyruvate Hydratase; Enolase. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic neuritis; Macular edema; Optic neuropathy, Ischemic; Optic atrop... | Text |
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The Clinical Spectrum of Amiodarone-Associated Optic Neuropathy | Sadun's response to a paper by L.N. Johnson, G.B. Kroheld, and E.R. Thomas at 2004 AAO meeting. Anatomy: Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic nerve diseases; Optic neuropathy, Ischemic | Text |
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Toxic Optic Neuropathies: Mitochondria and the RGC | Discussion of various forms of mitrochondrial optic neuropathies and how to distinguish from toxic optic neuropathies, with examples from Cuba and Brazil; includes images of optic disc showing LHON. Presenting Symptom: Blindness; Scotoma; Telangiectasis; Apoptosis; Dyschromatopsia. Anatomy: Optic ne... | Text |
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Mitochondrial Optic Neuropathies (MON) | Combination of two presentations on optic nerve diseases, covering the cases in Cuba and Brazil. Titles: Cuban epidemic of optic neuopathy: even zealots must eat, or, Conversations with Castro and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy: a very large new pedigree in Brazil; includes several images of ... | Text |
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Mitochondrial Optic Neuropathy: Mitochondria as Gatekeepers for Apoptosis | Anatomy: Optic nerve; Retina; Retinal ganglion cells; Reactive oxygen species. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber; Toxic optic neuropathy. Presenting Symptom: Scotoma; Dyschromatopsia. | Text |
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Mitochondria and the RGC | Discussion of various forms of mitrochondrial optic neuropathies and how to distinguish from toxic optic neuropathies, with examples from Cuba and Brazil. Presenting Symptom: Scotoma; Telangiectasis; Apoptosis; Dyschromatopsia. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disc; Retinal ganglion cells; Reactive oxyge... | Text |
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Mitochondrial Optic Neuropathy: Mitochondria as Gatekeepers for Apoptosis | Presentation at Harvard in 2006, focussing on Leber's Heriditary Optic Neuropathy; includes several images of optic nerve and optic disk with LHON. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disk; Retinal ganglion cells. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic nerve diseases; Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber. Presenting Symptom:... | Text |
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Pupils and the Neuro-Ophthalmic Manifestations of Diabetes | Presentation given in Italy on diagnosing neuro-opthalmic complications of diabetes with several views of the optic disc. Presenting symptom: Diplopia; Anisocoria; Ptosis; Horner syndrome; Adie syndrome. Anatomy: Pupil; Optic disc; Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Diabetes; Mucormycosis; Acidosis; Hy... | Text |
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The Neuro-Ophthalmic Manifestations of Diabetes | Anatomy: Orbit; Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Diabetes; Mucormycosis; Acidosis; Hypoplasia of the optic nerve; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic optic papillopathy; Optic neuropathy, Ischemic; Diabetic optic atrophy; Ophthalmoplegia; Arteritis; Diabetic ketoacidosis; Orbital cellulitis. Treatment: Debri... | Text |
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Cuban Epidemic of Optic Neuropathy: Even Zealots Must Eat, or, Conversations with Castro | A team of neuro-opthalmologists visits Cuba in 1993 and 1994, and attempts to treat patients with vision disorders. Anatomy: Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic nerve diseases; Alcoholic neuropathy. Treatment: Folate. Presenting Symptom: Blindness; Ambliopia; Ataxia; Paresthesia; Hyporeflexia. | Text |
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Toxic Optic Neuropathies: How Much Evidence Should it Take to Convict? | A critique of claims that the drug Amiodarone causes optic neuropathies. Presenting Symptom: Scotoma; Dyschromatopsia. Anatomy: Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Toxic optic neuropathy. | Text |
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Distinguishing an Optic Neuropathy from a Maculopathy | PPT describing a case of optic neuropathy. Covers signs and symptoms, and various laboratory tests. Describes 10 signes of disc edema. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Retina; Retinal macula. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic nerve diseases; Retinal lesion; Macular lesion; Disorder of the optic nerve; Afferent pupillar... | Text |
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Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy: A Very Large New Pedigree From Brazil | Four slides showing optic disc with LHON. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disk. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber. Presenting Symptom: Blindness. | Text |
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Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy: A Very Large New Pedigree in Brazil | Report of an international field investigation to rural Brazil to study a cluster of LHON, including its genetic basis. Includes several images of optic nerve and optic disk with LHON. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disk. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber. Presenting Symptom: Blindnes... | Text |
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Cuban Epidemic of Optic Neuropathy: Even Zealots Must Eat, or, Conversations with Castro | A team of neuro-opthalmologists visits Cuba in 1993 and 1994, and attempts to treat patients with vision disorders. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Structure of cribriform plate. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic nerve diseases; Blindness; Ambliopia; Alcoholic neuropathy. Treatment: Folate. Presenting Symptom: Ataxia;... | Text |
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How Mitochondria Orchestrate the Death of RGCs : From Brazil to Tuebingen to Rochester 2007 | Slides showing LHON and Kjer's optic atrophy and images of optic disk with LHON. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Retina; Retinal ganglion cells; Reactive oxygen species. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber. Presenting Symptom: Scotoma; Telangiectasis; Apoptosis; Dyschromatopsia; Blindness. | Text |
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An Epidemic of Blindness in Cuba: Lessons on Nutrition and Mitochondria | Presented at Stanford in April 2007, recapping the 1990s expedition to Cuba to investigate causes of blindness epidemic. Anatomy: Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic nerve diseases; Alcoholic neuropathy. Treatment: Folate. Presenting Symptom: Ambliopia; Ataxia; Paresthesia; Hyporeflexia. | Text |