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Women with epilepsy and hormonal irregularities had reduced nerve fiber length, reduced fractal dimension and increased nerve disorganization.

Confocal microscopy is in early stages of clinical implementation.

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — Corneal confocal microscopy can help identify corneal nerve fiber irregularities in women with epilepsy, according to a speaker at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.

Emma Orekovi , MD , said research has indicated that increased seizure frequency is associated with hormonal abnormalities.

“What we don’t quite understand and what the goal of this project was to figure out how these hormonal abnormalities increase seizure frequency and nerve degeneration at the cellular level,” Orekovi said.

Orekovi and colleagues examined

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