 Optic Atrophy
"Optic Atrophy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Atrophy of the optic disk which may be congenital or acquired. This condition indicates a deficiency in the number of nerve fibers which arise in the RETINA and converge to form the OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC CHIASM; and optic tracts. GLAUCOMA; ISCHEMIA; inflammation, a chronic elevation of intracranial pressure, toxins, optic nerve compression, and inherited conditions (see OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY) are relatively common causes of this condition.
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D009896
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.292.700.225 C11.640.451
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Optic Atrophy" by people in Profiles.
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Bojanek EK, Mosconi MW, Guter S, Betancur C, Macmillan C, Cook EH. Clinical and neurocognitive issues associated with Bosch-Boonstra-Schaaf optic atrophy syndrome: A case study. Am J Med Genet A. 2020 01; 182(1):213-218.
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Gowrisankaran S, Genead MA, Anastasakis A, Alexander KR. Characteristics of late negative ERG responses elicited by sawtooth flicker. Doc Ophthalmol. 2013 Feb; 126(1):9-19.
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Bem D, Yoshimura S, Nunes-Bastos R, Bond FC, Bond FF, Kurian MA, Rahman F, Handley MT, Hadzhiev Y, Masood I, Straatman-Iwanowska AA, Cullinane AR, McNeill A, Pasha SS, Kirby GA, Foster K, Ahmed Z, Morton JE, Williams D, Graham JM, Dobyns WB, Burglen L, Ainsworth JR, Gissen P, Müller F, Maher ER, Barr FA, Aligianis IA. Loss-of-function mutations in RAB18 cause Warburg micro syndrome. Am J Hum Genet. 2011 Apr 08; 88(4):499-507.
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Rankin J, Brown R, Dobyns WB, Harington J, Patel J, Quinn M, Brown G. Pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 6: A British case with PEHO-like features. . 2010 Aug; 152A(8):2079-84.
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Hayashi N, Geraghty MT, Green WR. Ocular histopathologic study of a patient with the T 8993-G point mutation in Leigh's syndrome. Ophthalmology. 2000 Jul; 107(7):1397-402.
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Chitayat D, Silver K, Azouz EM. Skeletal dysplasia, intracerebral calcifications, optic atrophy, hearing impairment, and mental retardation: nosology of dysosteosclerosis. Am J Med Genet. 1992 Jun 01; 43(3):517-23.
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