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Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy

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A 22-year-old female sophomore college student complained of acute bilateral vision loss for 1 month. Prior to the vision problem, she was busy preparing for the examinations and stayed late often. She denied eye pain or headache, without fever or flu neither. The local hospital diagnosed her as “acute optic neuritis” and methylprednisolone 1 g for 3 days was given without improvement of the visual acuity. She was referred to our neuro-ophthalmology clinic for further evaluation.

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Tian, G., Sun, X., Wu, J. (2022). Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. In: Tian, G., Sun, X. (eds) Neuro-Ophthalmology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4668-4_8

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