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Optic nerve decompression surgery for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) is not effective and may be harmful. The Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression Trial Research Group

DOI

95

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0

References

1995

Year

Kay Dickersin, Donald F. Everett, Steven E. Feldon, Frank J. Hooper, David W. Kaufman, Patricia Langenberg, Nancy J. Newman, P. David Wilson, Z. Suzanne Zam, John S. Kennerdell,
JAMA

Abstract

Results from the IONDT indicate that optic nerve decompression surgery for NAION is not effective, may be harmful, and should be abandoned. The spontaneous improvement rate is better than previously reported.