Antiretroviral therapy-induced Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy
Optic neuropathy in HIV-infected patients results from the HIV infection itself, post-infectious auto-immune disease, opportunistic infections and drugs. Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) such as zidovudine and stavudine have known mitochondrial toxicity and can cause mitochondrial...
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2014-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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