Dear Editor,We read with interest the article by Liu et al[1]about an optical coherence tomography(OCT)study of five patients(10 eyes)with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy(LHON)due to the variant m.11778 G>A in MT...
This work was supported by an unrestricted grant from the Research to Prevent Blindness to the Washington University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,and by a Research Award from the Vitreoretinal Surgery Foundation(JE).
Hereditary,metabolic and toxic optic neuropathies cause bilateral,central vision loss and therefore can result in severe impairment in visual function.Accurate,early diagnosis is critical,as nutritional and toxic opti...