Abstract
Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is an optic nerve disease characterized by subacute and painless loss of vision in young adults, more common in males aging 15 to 35 years. Affected individuals are asymptomatic until the development of a dense and extense central scotoma, dyschromatopsia and visual acuity reduction to the level of legal blindness in one eye, followed by the same…