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Role of brimonidine in anterior ischemic optic neuropathy?
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Questionable: Some think that it can help increase blood flow to the optic nerve but this has not been proven. But will not hurt.
Answered 9/1/2013
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None: I'm unaware of any use for that drug for aion. Brimonidine lowers intraocular pressure. Aion is a vascular disease of the optic nerve that is generally due to causes of atherosclerosis or other diseases of blood vessels.
Answered 9/5/2013
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Ischemic optic neuro: Brimonidine is thought to have neuroprotective properties and is sometimes used off label to help protect the fellow unaffected eye from developing NAION.
Answered 3/28/2015
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