Acute vision loss and choroidal filling delay in the absence of giant-cell arteritis
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Acute vision loss and choroidal filling delay in the absence of giant-cell arteritis
Giant-cell arteritis (GCA) is a visually devastating disease that often progresses to severe bilateral vision loss if untreated. Diagnosis of GCA is made challenging by the protean nature of the disease and the lack of a simple test that is both highly sensitive and specific. Choroidal filling delay on fluorescein angiography (FA) has been touted as a highly characteristic feature of GCA-relate...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Ophthalmology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1177-5483
DOI: 10.2147/opth.s112196