An 8-year-old Malaysian boy lost his vision suddenly during class due to severe Vitamin A deficiency from poor eating habits. He was diagnosed with optic neuropathy and rushed to the hospital.

Himani Goyal, MD, takes glaucoma care to the next level by embracing advancements that extend beyond traditional treatment ...

Optic nerve atrophy (ONA) is the result of various pathologies of the visual organ, in which the corresponding nerve is damaged. The optic nerve transmits visual signals from the retina to the brain, ...

People with MS may experience a variety of vision issues, including inflammation of the optic nerve, double vision ... dark spot in the center of the visual field, known as a central scotoma.

Optic neuropathy is a condition that occurs when the optic nerve is damaged, which can lead to vision loss. The optic nerve is a bundle of nerve fibers that sends visual information from the eye ...

Other stimulation modalities, such as magnetic fields, have been explored to achieve ... serving to expedite patient training periods relative to other types of visual prostheses. At the optic chiasm, ...

This consequently results in an impairment of ATP production and overproduction of reactive oxygen species, thereby damaging the retinal ganglion cells (RGC) and their axons, and eventually causing ...

Background/aims The analysis of visual field loss patterns ... to identifying the presence of optic nerve damage, which makes it an advantageous screening tool. Direct retrograde degeneration causes ...

This provides high resolution two-dimensional images of tissue depth structure and can be applied to the entire anatomy of the eye (retina, optic nerve, cornea ... optical coherence tomography; VF, ...

Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a maternally inherited mitochondrial condition that manifests as painless subacute bilateral visual loss usually in early ... Brain MRIs with features of ...