Clinical Trial: Neurotomy of Optic Nerve in Non-Arthritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

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Brief Summary: Non-arthritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy is the most common cause of sudden visual loss due to optic nerve involvement in patients above 50 years old. As this problem can be considered as a sclera out let syndrome an there is no effective and successful treatment for it, we decided to do a neurotomy procedure and relax the involved optic nerve in order to achieve acceptable treating outcome.

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Sponsor: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

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Information By: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

Dates:
Date Received: September 5, 2006
Date Started: January 2003
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Last Updated: October 11, 2006
Last Verified: November 2002