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 ...

An 8-year-old Asian boy presented with vision loss in the right eye for 1 day. He described a central area of vision loss with intact peripheral vision. At the onset of the vision loss, he had a mild ...

Retrospectively reviewed children younger than 18 years old with optic neuritis in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung Children’s Hospital from 1998 to 2009. Visual recovery from optic ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...