Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ATLANTA – Nonarteritic ischemic optic neuropathy and optic neuritis are two of the most common types of optic ...

A 62-year-old man presented to the New England Eye Center with left eye pain and decreased vision. He initially presented to an outside emergency department with intermittent headache and dull eye ...

Thinking about mistakes, especially medical mistakes, is uncomfortable. It is certainly more enjoyable to read about a promising new therapy than to scrutinize the reasons that medical mistakes are ...

Ophthalmologists, optometrists, and neurologists may be widely overdiagnosing optic neuritis, researchers say. Neuro-ophthalmologists at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, could confirm only ...

Optic neuritis is a condition in which the optic nerve becomes inflamed and swollen, leading to an acute severe impairment of vision in the affected eye. The swelling may further lead to damage to the ...

Marcus Gunn pupil is also known as Marcus Gunn sign and relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD). It’s when the eye’s pupil only slightly contracts or dilates when light shines over it, instead of ...

To determine the sensitivity and specificity of various methods of detecting a relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) in patients with glaucoma-related diagnoses. SFM and MA-SFM do not measure ...

A 34 year-old woman presented with right facial numbness. She had left optic neuritis two years ago. Multiple Sclerosis (MS): Flair axial MRI images at the level of the medulla/cerebellum (left), and ...

A 43 year-old man had a twenty year history of MS, presenting initially with optic neuritis. Over the past ten years, he developed progressive weakness, numbness and ataxia in the lower extremities.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease that attacks the nerves in your brain, spinal cord, and optic nerve. It’s considered an autoimmune disease. It causes inflammation and the loss of a ...

Optic neuritis is an inflammation of the optic nerve, a bundle of nerve fibers that relays visual information from the eye to the brain. The condition may cause vision disturbances that can resolve on ...