Good news for those w/ rare eye disease, non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION)

Four years ago Duke Rohlen was diagnosed with non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), also known as optic nerve stroke. Learn how he faced the prospect of sudden visual impairment and how the team at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford Health Care helped him come out on the good side of a very bad situation.
How vision loss helped me see the world in a new light by Duke Rohlen: stan.md/43EYJDI
Byers Eye Institute at Stanford Health Care: stan.md/3oahnD5
Rare eye disease is focus of new Stanford Medicine center: stan.md/3MAKARF
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I’m 36 and have Naion. Diagnosed at 34. Thankful there are people working to learn more on this subject.