Successful treatment of bilateral visual loss caused by HIV-associated optic neuritis

• Päätekijät: Claire Cullen (Tekijä), Baile Matlala (Tekijä), Fatima Laher (Tekijä), Ané Pienaar (Tekijä)
• Aineistotyyppi: Kirja
• Julkaistu: AOSIS, 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Optic neuritis is not an uncommon diagnosis in HIV-infected patients, but it is rarely idiopathic. We report a case of a young HIV-infected woman who developed optic neuritis as her presenting manifestation of HIV infection. She had initially experienced sudden-onset right-sided painful visual loss;...