کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4032551 1603016 2013 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A historical perspective on the early treatment of night blindness and the use of dubious and unproven treatment strategies for patients with retinitis pigmentosa
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی چشم پزشکی
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A historical perspective on the early treatment of night blindness and the use of dubious and unproven treatment strategies for patients with retinitis pigmentosa
چکیده انگلیسی

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a form of inherited night blindness. Over decades, various dubious treatment strategies that lacked sufficient theoretically sound underpinnings were explored. Initially they were enthusiastically promoted and subsequently discredited. It is apparent that many were predicated on the erroneous assumption that the primary cause of RP was related to impairment of the retinal circulation. Herein, several of these strategies are reviewed and critiqued. Reasons why clinicians may have been deceived into overzealous interpretations of their treatment methods are explored. The examples disclosed should serve as a note of caution for current investigators to guard against self-deception when exploring newly developed treatment strategies.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Survey of Ophthalmology - Volume 58, Issue 6, November–December 2013, Pages 652–663
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