Rapid Communication The Mydriatic Effect of Tropicamide and its Diagnostic Use in Alzheimer's Disease
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The mydriatic effect of topically administered tropicamide was investigated as a possible diagnostic indicator for Alzheimer’s disease. Although an initial series seemed to show a correlation between hypersensitivity to tropicamide and intellectual impairment, subsequent testing showed a greater interand intra-individual variation than that between the normal group and the group of patients with intellectual impairment. This procedure seems, therefore, to lack sufficient specificity to be useful for such a diagnostic purpose. Copyright @ 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Vision Research
دوره 37 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997