Eye - Optic nerve axons: life and death before birth. Skip to main content. ... Clinical characteristics of optic neuritis phenotypes in a 3-year follow-up Chinese cohort ...

Of adult patients with MS, 50% will develop optic neuritis during the course of MS, and it is the first clinical symptom in 20% of patients. In a small retrospective series of children with MS who ...

Aim: To establish the clinical profile of simultaneous bilateral optic neuritis in adults, the efficacy of steroid therapy, extent of visual recovery, and neurological outcome. Methods: The authors ...

The OCT showed reduced inner nuclear layer thickness in AQP4-NMOSD with comorbidities (B = −1.52, P = 0.047), more marked in those with CVC/RF (B = −2.96, P = 0.009). Investigators concluded that ...

Logistic regression was performed to differentiate MOGAD from AQP4+ NMOSD and MS. Results In MOGAD, 19 (54%) patients had lesions on MRI, with cortical/juxtacortical (68%) ... optic neuritis or ...

The mother of a 6-year-old girl has shared the story of learning her daughter was born blind, and how far they have come together as a family. Skin specialist Hayley Steinbach, 30, lives in Essex ...

NAION is a disorder caused by reduced blood flow to the optic nerve in the eye, which can damage the nerve and lead to permanent vision loss. PRAC said it found that the condition is “a very rare side ...

Patients with anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) show the best visual prognosis and the shortest recovery time of 1 to 2 ...

A study of people with diabetes found the risk of macular degeneration remained low, but was 0.2% in people taking GLP-1s, 0.1% in those who didn't.

Blocking AQP4 with the selective inhibitor TGN-020 nullified these benefits, supporting the interpretation that they can be attributed to improved glymphatic function. Additionally, the authors found ...

Columbia scientists have found that boosting the performance of a self-cleansing system in the brain helps flush amyloid and tau toxins from the brains of mice and improves the animals' cognition.

Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a mitochondrial genetic disease that preferentially causes blindness in young adult males, affecting about 1 in 25 000 of the British population. It is ...