Corticosteroids for treating optic neuritis
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Corticosteroids do not prevent optic nerve atrophy following optic neuritis.
Corticosteroids shorten the period of functional impairment following relapses in optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis (MS); however they have not, thus far, been shown to affect the final level of function compared with placebo. There has been recent interest in the use of corticosteroids as neuroprotective agents by their effect of decreasing nitric oxide (NO) production by mononuclear cells...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd001430.pub4