Progressive and Recurrent Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

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We examined ten patients with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy in whom the visual deficit progressed over a number of weeks or who suffered a recurrence in the same eye. The visual deficits progressed over a month or more in five patients, four patients suffered a recurrence in the same eye after a long interval, and one patient had bilateral progression and a recurrence.

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