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      Error diagnóstico en la neuropatía óptica epidémica Translated title: Diagnostic error in epidemic optic neuropathy

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          La forma óptica de la epidemia de neuropatía, aparecida en el decenio pasado en Cuba, ha sido motivo de discusión por el posible hiperdiagnóstico, de los más de 22 000 casos notificados. El propósito principal de este trabajo es profundizar en la caracterización de esta enfermedad y dar a conocer la congruencia que debe de existir entre la agudeza visual y la visión de colores en las neuropatías de este tipo; además, estimar sobre la base de este elemento la posible cifra de errores diagnósticos de dos grupos de pacientes con neuropatía optica epidérmica y en un tercer grupo de pacientes que no mejoraron con tratamiento, donde se reunieron 78 casos remitidos porque no mejoraban con tratamiento vitamínico. Los resultados demostraron congruencia entre el estado de afectación de la agudeza visual y la visión de colores en más del 90 % de los 960 casos de los grupos 1 y 2, con diagnóstico de neuropatía óptica epidémica comprobados por expertos, a diferencia de los casos del tercer grupo, en los que se detectó que el 96,1 % tuvieron de inicio falsos diagnósticos de esta enfermedad p < 0,01. Las enfermedades que con más frecuencia motivaron el error diagnóstico fueron: neuropatías de otro tipo, maculopatías, catarata polar posterior, histeria y simulación

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          The optic form of the neuropathy epidemic that appeared in the last decade in Cuba has been discussed due to the possible hyperdiagnosis of the more than 22 000 notified cases. The main objective of this paper was to go deep into the characterization of this disease, to make known the congruency that should exist between the visual acuity and the vision of colors in the neuropathies of this type, and to estimate, on the basis of this element, the possible figure of diagnostic errors in 2 groups of patients with EON and of a third group of patients that did not improve with the treatment. In this group, there were 78 cases that were referred because they did not respond to vitamin therapy. The results showed congruency between the state of affection of visual acuity and the vision of colors in more than 90 % of the 960 cases from groups 1 and 2 with diagnosis of epidemic optical neuropathy confirmed by experts The results were different in the third group, where 96.1 % of the patients had false diagnoses of this disease since the beginning p 0.01. . The diseases leading to the diagnostic error more frequently were: neuropathies of other type, maculopathies, posterior polar cataract, hysteria and simulation

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                Revista Cubana de Oftalmología
                Rev Cubana Oftalmol
                Editorial Ciencias Médicas (Ciudad de la Habana )
                1561-3070
                December 2005
                : 18
                : 2
                : 0
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                [1 ] Instituto de Neurología y Neurocirugía Cuba
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                S0864-21762005000200002
                864ac20c-8986-41ca-93d6-8f06abde4910

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                OPHTHALMOLOGY

                Ophthalmology & Optometry
                tropical neuropathies,Nutritional neuropathies,Strachan's disease,optic neuropathies,alcoholic,tobacco or nutritional neuropathies,epidemic neuropathy of Cuba,Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy,Neuropatías nutricionales,Neuropatías tropicales,Enfermedad de Strachan,Neuropatías ópticas,Neuropatías alcohólico tabáquica o nutricional,Neuropatía epidémica de Cuba,Neuropatía óptica hereditaria de Leber

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