علاج الاعتلال العصبي البصري الأمامي الإقفاري غير الشرياني (NAION)

DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2009.06.008

• Patients were initially given 80 mg of prednisone daily for 2 weeks, followed by a taper every 5 days to 70 mg, 60 mg, and then decreasing the dose by 5 mg every 5 days to 40 mg until the optic disk edema was no longer present.
• Prednisone was rapidly tapered off completely following resolution of disk edema.
• In those treated with steroid therapy within 2 weeks, the median time to optic disk edema resolution was 6.8 weeks, compared to 8.2 weeks in untreated cases (p<0.0001).
• In both the treated and untreated groups, the visual acuity and visual fields kept improving up to about 6 months, and very little thereafter.