Vitamin B12 Deficiency as a Cause of Neurotrophic Keratopathy.

Discussion: Based on our clinical findings and with the diagnosis of B12 deficiency we started B12 treatment for the patient. After 3 weeks the patient showed a dramatic response with corneal sensation reversal, an increase of visual acuity, improved neurotrophic keratopathy and significantly improved neurological findings. To the best of our knowledge, there is no report regarding vitamin B12 deficiency induced keratopathy and this is the first report that describes this aspect of vitamin B12 deficiency. PMID: 29541277 [PubMed]

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Source: Open Ophthalmology Journal - March 20, 2018 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Open Ophthalmol J Source Type: research