neuropathy
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neuropathies
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"Because ischemic optic neuropathy can present with sudden vision loss, which may be permanent, early recognition of symptoms and prompt ophthalmologic evaluation may be especially important for patients at higher baseline risk."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
The condition, known as ischemic optic neuropathy, occurs when blood flow to the optic nerve is reduced.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Two weeks later, a doctor diagnosed Fennell, 53 years old, with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION, a condition that leads to sudden, often permanent vision loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Paul has severe neuropathy and needs accommodation that meets his accessibility needs, while also being suitable for a family of six.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
On the supposition that neuropathy forms a necessary condition of abnormal instinct, is it generic neuropathy or a specific type of that disorder?
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds
In the 1940s, some people with vitamin B12 deficiency given very high doses of folic acid to treat anemia developed irreversible neuropathies.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2021
Surgical scars, lost body parts and hair, chemically induced fatigue, radiological burns, nausea, hormone-blocking medications, numbness from neuropathies, weight gain or loss, and anxiety hardly function as aphrodisiacs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2018
Patients dealing with lymphedema or neuropathies, the loss of a limb or postoperative pain may resign themselves to these distressing conditions as an unfortunate but inevitable price that had to be paid for life.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2015
Whose chemo resulted in kidney damage or neuropathies?
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012
A number of friends who have either Raynaud’s or neuropathies associated with diabetes have tried it as well with great success!
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2010
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