Effects of high dose prednisolone on optic nerve head blood flow in patients with acute optic neuritis

✍ Scribed by Hemma Resch; Günther Weigert; Gerhard Garhöfer; Karl Kircher; Guido T Dorner; Andreas Reitner; Leopold Schmetterer

• Publisher: BioMed Central
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 71 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1471-2210
• DOI: 10.1186/1471-2210-7-s2-a30

✦ Synopsis

In the present study patients with optic neuritis were treated with high dose prednisolone. Little information is available about the effects of this treatment on ocular blood flow. We set out to investigate the effects of high dose prednisolone on optic nerve head blood flow in patients with acute optic neuritis.