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optical nerve

my dad is blind for the past 13 years AION-damage to optical nerve im willing to try anything any help?
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I am new to this forum but I hope that you find help for your dad. God bless!
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Very unlikely anything can be done NOW. the optic nerve is brain tissue not really a nerve. The same problems as when the spinal cord is severed; brain tissue does not try and regenerate like peripheral nerves.

Someday ON and spinal cord damage will be fixable but not likely soon.

JCH MD
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