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ArticleAdvances and technical standards in neurosurgery2023

Optic Pathway Gliomas: The Trends of Basic Research to Reduce the Impact of the Disease on Visual Function.

Federico Bianchi, Federico Maria Cocilovo, Antonio Ruggiero, Gianpiero Tamburrini

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Article in Advances and technical standards in neurosurgery, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Federico BianchiFondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy. federico.bianchi@policlinicogemelli.it.
Federico Maria CocilovoUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
Antonio RuggieroFondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Gianpiero TamburriniFondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

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Abstract

Pediatric optic pathway gliomas (OPG) are low-grade brain tumors characterized by slow progression and invalidating visual loss. Common therapeutic strategies include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and combinations of these modalities, but despite the different treatment strategies, no actual treatment exists to prevent or revert visual impairment. Nowadays, several reports of the literature show promising results regarding NGF eye drop instillation and improvement of visual outcome. Such results seem to be related with the NGF-linked prevention in caspase activation, which reduces retinal ganglion cell loss.Reducing retinal ganglion cell loss results clinically in visual field improvement as well as visual electric potential and optical coherence tomography gain. Nonetheless, visual acuity fails to show significant changes.Visual impairment represents nowadays one of the major issues in dealing with OPGs. Secondary to the interesting results offered by NGF eye drop administration, further studies are warranted to better comprehend potential treatment strategies.

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Neurofibromatosis 1Optic Nerve GliomaVision, LowChildHumansVision DisordersVision, OcularVisual AcuityVisual FieldsEye dropNGFOptic pathway gliomaTreatmentVisual outcome

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