Childhood Blindness: A Rare Case of Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy in a 16-Year-Old Egyptian Patient

Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a maternally inherited mitochondrial genetic disorder that is rarely encountered in daily clinical practice. It presents by an acute or subacute onset and a progressive course of painless, bilateral, sequential severe loss of vision, mostly seen in young m...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) CA), 2024-10, Vol.16 (10), p.e71619
Hauptverfasser:	Abuhamaid, Abdulla I, Alsaffar, Ghufran S, Madan, Zainab H, Wahba, Yahya
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Atrophy Childhood Disease Families & family life Females Genetic counseling Genetic testing Hospitals Magnetic resonance imaging Males Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Optics Tomography Visual acuity
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