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ALEXANDER E. MacDONALD, M.D.; KENNETH G. McKENZIE, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1935;13(3):362-373.

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In September 1930, Royle¹ stimulated interest in the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa by stating that the vision of patients with this disease could be improved by the surgical interruption of the sympathetic nerves to the eye. Our experience with this form of treatment has been limited to four cases. Although the results have not been particularly encouraging, we believe that they should be placed on record.

Success has attended the efforts of individual workers in treating retinitis pigmentosa with other measures, but their good results have not been duplicated by independent trials. Galvanism was used by Dor² and Gunn.³ Mayou⁴ tried amyl nitrite, paracentesis and trephining; Doyne⁵ employed the operation for cataract, which was also used by Knapp⁶ in four cases, without improvement. Roentgen treatment was used in 1928 by Merkulow and Schick,⁷ acetylcholine by Corrado⁸ and female sex hormone by . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
TORONTO, CANADA

Footnotes
Read at the Seventieth Annual Meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society, Lucerne, Canada, July 10, 1934.

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