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Clinical, demographic characteristics, and treatment protocols of optic neuropathies: Three-year follow-up experiences from a tertiary hospital in Turkey

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dc.creator Kandeger, Burcu Taskiran
dc.creator TÖK, Özlem
dc.creator TÖK, Levent
dc.date 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-09T12:10:20Z
dc.date.available 2023-01-09T12:10:20Z
dc.identifier fd83bb49-4d12-4a7d-850d-442a4092ee3c
dc.identifier 10.18502/cjn.v21i3.11110
dc.identifier https://avesis.sdu.edu.tr/publication/details/fd83bb49-4d12-4a7d-850d-442a4092ee3c/oai
dc.identifier.uri http://acikerisim.sdu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/123456789/98577
dc.description © The Authors.Background: This study was conducted to review the demographic and clinical characteristics, treatment protocols, and visual outcomes of patients with optic neuropathy. Methods: This historical cohort study analyzed the clinical features of 91 patients with optic neuropathy followed up for three years at a university hospital in Turkey. Results: Non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NA-AION) was the most common group among the optic neuropathy subgroups (47.2%), and optic neuritis (ON) was the second most common group (38.5%). The mean age of symptom onset for NA-AION was 64.97 ± 12.15 years, significantly higher than the mean age of onset for ON (40.28 ± 15.52 years). Most of the patients with NA-AION had at leasone systemic disease causing microangiopathy [51.1% had diabetes mellitus (DM), 33.3% had hypertension (HTN)]. Among the patients with ON51.4% were idiopathic, and 25.7% were multiple sclerosis (MS)-related ON cases. Patients with ischemic optic neuropathy (ION), ON, and traumatic optic neuropathy received pulse intravenous (IVcorticosteroids, and eleven patients with NA-AION received acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) therapy in addition to corticosteroids. There was a statistically significanincrease in visual acuity in NA-AION and ON groups (P = 0.019). It was observed that the cases of ON peaked in the winter months in Turkey.
dc.language eng
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title Clinical, demographic characteristics, and treatment protocols of optic neuropathies: Three-year follow-up experiences from a tertiary hospital in Turkey
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article


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