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Optical coherence tomography in a patient with tobacco-alcohol amblyopia
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- Issue Date
- 2007-04-17
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Citation
- Eye (Lond). 2008; 22(3): 469-470
- Keywords
- Alcoholism/*complications ; Amblyopia/*diagnosis/etiology ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Nerve Fibers ; Optic Nerve/*ultrastructure ; Scotoma/diagnosis ; Smoking/*adverse effects ; Tomography, Optical Coherence/methods
- Abstract
- AIM: To report optical coherence tomography (OCT) finding in a patient with tobacco-alcohol amblyopia.METHODS: A 45-year-old man presented with a gradual decrease in vision over 4 years. He had smoked a half to one pack of cigarettes per day and had consumed 350 cc of gin per day for 30 years. A detailed ophthalmologic examination was performed.RESULTS: His corrected visual acuities were 20/800 OD and 20/200 OS. A Goldmann visual field examination showed ceco-central scotomas in both eyes. OCT using a peripapillary Fast RNFL (retinal nerve fiber layer) programme showed a small decrease in the RNFL thickness of the superotemporal quadrant in the normative diagram of the right eye in spite of a markedly increased RNFL thickness in both eyes.CONCLUSION: During the phase of visual loss in a patient with tobacco-alcohol amblyopia, visual loss may precede optic disc changes as detected by OCT.
- ISSN
- 0950-222X (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17435689
http://www.nature.com/eye/journal/v22/n3/pdf/6702821a.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/68199
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