What Researchers Did
Researchers described a case of a 4-year-old boy with mumps-associated outer retinitis and frosted branch angiitis who was treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
What They Found
They found that the patient's visual acuity improved from bilateral blindness to 20/40 in the right eye and 20/320 in the left eye. Sequential follow-up optical coherence tomography also showed progressive recovery of the outer retinal layers in the right eye.
Canadian Relevance
This study has no direct Canadian connection.
Study Limitations
A significant limitation of this study is that it is an observational case report, meaning its findings cannot be generalized to a larger patient population.