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Poster Session North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society 41st Annual Meeting February 21-26, 2015 Hotel del Coronado • San Diego, California Poster Presentations Tuesday, February 24, 2015 • 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Authors will be standing by their posters during the following hours: Odd-Numbered Posters: 6:45 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Even-Numbered Posters: 7:30 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. Poster # Presenting Author Category: Anterior Afferent Visual Pathway (Optic Neuropathy and Chiasm) 1 Normal Tension Glaucoma (NTG) is it a Type of Glaucoma or an Entity of a Mohammed Areesh Compressive Optic Neuropathy (CON)? 2 Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Due to Biopsy-Proven Giant Cell Arteritis in Thai Taweevat Attaseth Patients 3 Visual Outcomes Following Perioperative Vision Loss Jasmina Bajric 4 Pituitary Apoplexy in Pregnancy Matthew J. Benage 5 Bilateral, Sequential Anterior then Posterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in a Young Damian E. Migraineur Berezovsky 6 Traumatic Optic Neuropathy. Our Experience Mariana de Virgiliis 7 Sensitivity of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Acute Demyelinating Optic Neuritis Lulu LCD Bursztyn 8 Characterization of Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy Patients Treated with Jasdeep S. Chahal Idebenone 9 Gliosarcoma of the Optic Nerves 15 years After Radiation Treatment for Hypophyseal Ayse I. Colpak Adenoma 10 Optic Nerve Compression by an Anomalous Internal Carotid Artery Valerie I. Elmalem 11 Identifying Risk Factors for the Development of Radiation Optic Neuropathy at “Safe” Pavle Doroslovački Doses: A Review of Cases Seen 1994-2014 12 Optic Neuritis After Refractive Surgery: Causal or Coincidence? Shlomo Dotan 13 Long Term Treatment of Lebers Hereditary Optic Neuropathy with Idebenone Jennifer I. Doyle 14 Macular Star Formation in Diabetic Patients with Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Alberto Galvez-Ruiz Neuropathy (NA-AION) 15 Seasonal Influence on the Incidence of Biopsy-Proven Giant Cell Arteritis: The Kimberly K. University of California Davis Institutional Experience Gokoffski 16 Possible Revatio (Sildenafil) Induced Optic Neuropathy in Mice Nitza Goldenberg- Cohen 17 Cyclosporine Induced Papilledema without Elevated Intracranial Pressure Poorav J. Patel 18 Asymptomatic Leukemic Optic Nerve Infiltration as Presentation of Acute Florin Grigorian Lymphoblastic Leukemia Relapse 19 Progressive Visual Loss: An Unusual Presenting Symptom in Giant Cell Arteritis Parima Hirunwiwatkul 20 Demyelinating Disorder with Optic Neuropathies in a Patient with Monoclonal Whitney B. Hough Gammopathy: Case Report and Literature Review 21 Retrospective Review of Ophthalmic and Systemic Associations of Optic Nerve Imran Jivraj Hypoplasia 22 Optic Nerve Morphology as Marker for Disease Severity in Cerebral Palsy of Sachin Kedar Perinatal Origin North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society 41st Annual Meeting February 21-26, 2015 Hotel del Coronado • San Diego, California Poster # Presenting Author Category: Anterior Afferent Visual Pathway (Optic Neuropathy and Chiasm) continued 23 Clinical Characteristics of Optic Neuritis Associated with Viral Infection Sa Kang Kim 24 Methanol Causes Highly Selective Retinal Ganglion Cell Layer Loss and Inner Nuclear Kendra A. Klein Layer Microcysts 25 Parsing the Differences Between LHON Affected: Genetic Vs Environmental Triggered Valerio Carelli Disease 26 Changes in Macular OCT Retinal Sublayers of Patients and Carriers in the Natural Byron L. Lam History Phase of the Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy G11778A Gene Therapy Clinical Trial 27 Low Grade Glioma of the Pituitary Stalk, Case Report with Review of the Literature Su Ann Lim 28 Visualisation of Nerve Fibre Orientation in the Human Optic Chiasm Using Neeranjali Jain Photomicrographic Image Analysis 29 Optic Neuropathy in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Amina I. Malik 30 How is Eye Fixation Affected by Optic Neuropathy? Diagnostic Value of Precise Robert M. Mallery Recording of Retina Movement During an OCT Scan 31 A Novel OPA1 Mutation in Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy (ADOA) Jordan A. Margo 32 The Vegetative Aspects of Neuroprotective Action of High Corticosteroid Doses in Yulya T. Maslyak Compressive Traumatic Optic Neuropathies (TON) 33 Optic Atrophy in a Large Specialist Hospital Joyce N. Mbekeani 34 Neurofibromatosis 1 with Large Suprasellar and Bilateral Optic Nerve Pilomyxoid Joyce N. Mbekeani Astrocytoma 35 Optic Neuropathy in Wolfram’s Syndrome Imaged with High-Definition Spectral Dan Milea Domain OCT 36 Retinal Oximetry (Oxygen Saturation) and Peripapillary Vascular Diameters in Normal Ashwin Mohan Eyes and in Non-Arteritic Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (NAION) 37 Is Ishihara Color Plate Testing as Reliable on iPod/iPhone and iPad as on Paper Katherine Format? Boudreault 38 Multifactorial Optic Neuropathy - When it isn't Always Glaucoma Deborah C. Parish 39 Cobalt-Chromium Metallosis with Normal ERG Huy V. Nguyen 40 Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (NAION): A Misnomer. A Non- Cameron F. Parsa Ischemic Papillopathy Caused by Vitreous Separation 41 Visual and Oculomotor Outcomes in Children with Posterior Fossa Tumors Crandall E. Peeler 42 Radiation Optic Neuropathy and Retinopathy from Low Dose (20Gy) Radiation Crandall E. Peeler Treatment 43 Bilateral Optic Neuropathy in Superficial Intracranial Siderosis Thong D. Pham 44 Binocular Acuity Summation (BAS) in Multiple Sclerosis (MS): Relation to Retinal Sara S. Qureshi Architecture and Visual System Neurophysiology 45 Nutritional Optic Neuropathy after Bariatric Surgery Yuna Rapoport 46 Lyme Disease Mimicking Giant Cell Arteritis Nailyn Rasool 47 Structural Analyses of the Anterior Visual Pathway in Compressive Neuropathy Won Hyung A. Ryu North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society 41st Annual Meeting February 21-26, 2015 Hotel del Coronado • San Diego, California Poster # Presenting Author Category: Anterior Afferent Visual Pathway (Optic Neuropathy and Chiasm) continued 48 Changes in Thickness of Retinal Segments in the Early Course of Non-Arteritic Bernardo F. Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy Sanchez-Dalmau 49 A First Case Report of Chordoid Glioma Invading Optic Nerve Nicolae Sanda 50 Clinical Spectrum of Optic Neuritis in Indian Children at a Tertiary Care Centre Swati Phuljhele 51 Prognosticating Factors in Nonarteritic Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy Swati Phuljhele 52 Sweep My Blindness Away! Salwa Abdel Aziz 53 Progressive Non-Arteritic Optic Neuropathy as the First Presentation of Anti- Tarek A. Shazly Phospholipid Antibody Syndrome 54 Anterior Visual Pathway(AVP) Meningiomas: A Dosimetric Comparison of IMRT to Scott L. Stafford Pencil-beam Proton Therapy 55 A Case of Lyme Neuroretinitis- An Elusive Entity Padmaja Sudhakar 56 50% of Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Occurs Between 40-55 Years Ming-Hui Sun Old 57 Evaluation of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer and Ganglion Cell Complex in a Cohort of Guohong Tian Chinese with Optic Neuritis or Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders Using SD-OCT 58 Transient Monocular Vision Loss Upon Awakening: A Benign Phenomenon Marc A. Bouffard 59 Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy In Singapore: Multiethnic Involvement And Sharon L. Tow Report Of A New Gene Mutation Causing Optic Atrophy And Deafness 60 Optic Nerve Head and Macular Choroidal Vascularization in Patients Affected by Giacinto Triolo Normal Tension Glaucoma and Non-Arteritic Ischemic Optic Neuropathy: What Do They Share? What Is Different? 61 Multifocal ERG Shows Pre-Ganglion Cells Dysfunction in Dominant Optic Atrophy: Maria Lucia Genotype-Phenotype Correlation Cascavilla 62 Pediatric Primary Optic Nerve Sheath Meningioma Kavin Vanikieti 63 Syphilitic Optic Neuropathy : Reemerging Cases Over A 2-Year Period Anuchit Poonyathalang 64 Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy as Sole Presenting Sign of Internal Carotid Artery Kimberly M. Occlusion Winges 65 Challenges in the Management of Apoplexy of a Growth Hormone(GH)-Secreting John Wong Pituitary Adenoma During Pregnancy 66 The Prevalence of Mitochondrial Disease in the Adult Population – Implications for the Patrick Yu-Wai-Man Prevention of Maternal Transmission 67 Neuropathies in Children Involving Vision Caused by a Fall From Height Alon Zahavi 68 Immunosuppressive Therapy of Chinese Isolated Non-MS Idiopathic Optic Neuritis Xiaojun Zhang 69 How does Exogenous ROS Effect LHON Conversion? Jeffrey Tran Category: Cranial Nerves (Paresis, etc.) 70 Chronic, Painful Abducens Palsy May Require Angiography: Lesson Re-Learned from a Aliaa H. Case of a White-Eyed Shunt. Abdelhakim 71 Eight and a Half Syndrome-A Rare Neuro Ophthamologic Manifestation Due to Sanam Anwer Pontine Infarction North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society 41st Annual Meeting February 21-26, 2015 Hotel del Coronado • San Diego, California Poster # Presenting Author Category: Cranial Nerves (Paresis, etc.) continued 72 Where the Lung Meets the Eye Nathan W. Blessing 73 Metastasis or Metamorphosis? Krista Kinard 74 Acute Onset Internuclear Ophthlamoplegia and Migraine Headache Oana M. Dumitrascu 75 Traumatic Avulsion of the Oculomotor Nerve: First Definitive Documentation on High Lauren C. Ditta Resolution MRI 76 Ocular Motor Cranial Nerve Palsies in Pituitary Apoplexy Rabih Hage 77 Later Life Decompensation of Congenital Trochlear Palsy due to Agenesis Ji-Soo Kim 78 Presentation of Primary Hodgkin’s Lymphoma as Multiple Cranial Neuropathies Hreem N. Patel 79 Acute Angle Closure Glaucoma in a Patient with Miller Fisher Syndrome without Won Yeol Ryu Pupillary Dysfunction 80 Congenital Oculomotor Nerve Paresis with Isolated Cyclic Pupillary Spasms Michael Salman 81
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