A wireless implant helped patients with severe macular degeneration regain usable vision. The results point toward a new ...

Doctors think they've figured out a way to predict who might lose vision due to a high brain pressure disorder. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension occurs when there's unexplained pressure buildup in ...

– Data provide insights that informed the Phase 1 study of STK-002 as a potential disease-modifying medicine for ADOA, including disease etiology, progression and clinical assessments – – ADOA is a ...

A research team from the Medical University of Vienna and the Medical University of Graz has discovered a previously unknown genetic cause of hereditary optic atrophy, a degenerative disease of the ...

Summary: Researchers have identified a new genetic cause of hereditary optic atrophy—a condition that leads to gradual vision loss—by discovering a previously unknown mutation in the PPIB gene. This ...

Gene therapy for LHON using AAV2 showed bilateral improvement despite unilateral injection, challenging previous assumptions about vector behavior and gene therapy mechanisms. The unexpected bilateral ...

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A deep-learning model trained on optical coherence tomography scans of the optic nerve head reliably distinguished among various types of optic nerve damage, such as glaucoma, non-arteritic anterior ...

The use of GLP-1 receptor agonists, and particularly liraglutide, was associated with an increased risk of developing nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) during the first year of ...

Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA), the most common genetic optic neuropathy, is an insidious disease. It often presents slowly during childhood by way of blurry vision, trouble reading or ...