Note the splinter hemorrhages at the level of the nerve fiber layer, more than 1 disc area away from the optic nerve head. The right ... retinal pigment epithelial atrophy corresponding to ...

The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...

So the optic nerve is your vision nerve. It's the nerve or the cable that connects your eye to your brain. So in glaucoma, we see a very slow and progressive, meaning worsening, atrophy of the ...

In the present case, the relatively distant location of the nerve fiber layer hemorrhage from the swollen optic nerve head represents ... avoided to prevent optic atrophy and permanent vision ...