Research
Interests
Typically we use the eye and optic nerve as a model to
determine the effectiveness of treatment strategies with brain disease.Our
center has had collaborations with the National Eye Institute to longitudinally
follow the effects of steroid use in patients with optic neuritis and
longitudinal follow-up of patients with Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy.
We are also looking at the use of experimental drugs
in patients with acute onset of stroke, Tamoxifen (anti-breast cancer
medicine) affects on the eye, early treatment strategies in multiple sclerosis,
and etc.
Please
feel free to contact me if you have any questions about my research.
Selected Publications
Search all publications in the NCBI Journal Database
Optic Neuritis Study Group. Visual Function More
Than 10 Years after Optic Neuritis: Experience of the Optic Neuritis Treatment
Trials. American Journal of Ophthalmology, in press.
Charters, Lynda, Kaufman DI quoted in, Typical
Optic Neuritis May Signal Multiple Sclerosis. Ophthalmology Times, March
1, 2004.
Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression Trial Study Group.
Surgical Quality Assurance in the Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression
Trial (IONDT). Controlled Clinical Trials 2003; 24: 294-305.
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David
I. Kaufman