title: Visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye.
abstract: The left eye of a 65-year-old male was blind due to optic atrophy and only seeing eye had also dry type age-related macular degeneration. An anterior ischemic optic neuropathy developed in the better seeing eye. Vision recovered in the blind eye in a short time after losing the better eye. Gaining some vision in a blind eye may be an adaptation of visual pathway in such patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kemal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ornek
authors.forename: Nurgül
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ornek
keywords: Optic atrophy; optic neuropathy; visual recovery