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Reply to the letter titled “More likely than through head trauma, is LHON triggered by mitochondrion-toxic drugs or oxidative stress”

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This letter was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology Information and Communication (No. 2020R1G1A1013752). The funders had no role in case selection, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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    Hoon Dong Kim

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All procedures performed in the case report involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Celal Bayer University Medical Faculty Ethics Committee (Approval Date: 14 March 2018, Approval Number: 20.478.486) and with Helsinki Declaration (1964) and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This letter and previous case report were approved by the Institutional Reviewer Board (IRB) of Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital (IRB No. 2020-08-019).

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Kim, H.D. Reply to the letter titled “More likely than through head trauma, is LHON triggered by mitochondrion-toxic drugs or oxidative stress”. Doc Ophthalmol 142, 397–398 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10633-020-09816-6

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