The Correlation between Aquaporin-4 Antibody and the Visual Function of Patients with Demyelinating Optic Neuritis at Onset

Hui Yang; Wei Qiu; Xiujuan Zhao; Wei Xiao; Shaofen Lin; Yan Luo; Lin Lu

doi:10.1155/2015/672931

The Correlation between Aquaporin-4 Antibody and the Visual Function of Patients with Demyelinating Optic Neuritis at Onset

J Ophthalmol. 2015:2015:672931. doi: 10.1155/2015/672931. Epub 2015 May 11.

Authors

Hui Yang¹, Wei Qiu², Xiujuan Zhao¹, Wei Xiao¹, Shaofen Lin¹, Yan Luo¹, Lin Lu¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510060, China.
² Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China.

Abstract

ON patients with AQP4-Ab seropositivity tend to be predominantly female and young and have worse visual acuity and more severe damage to their visual fields compared with AQP4-Ab seronegativity.