A 71-year-old man was referred by his usual ophthalmologist to the neuro-ophthalmology clinic at Tufts Medical Center for bilateral decreased vision associated with bilateral optic disc edema. His ...

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 ...

Your ability to see the world around you hinges on how well different structures in your eye perform their designated jobs. The optic nerve — actually a bundle of more than one million nerve fibers — ...

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

"Our decision to treat typically needs to be made on the balance of likelihood, before the diagnosis of an associated disease process can be fully established, with definitive tests for multiple ...

Optic neuritis (ON) is characterized by inflammation of the optic nerve with acute loss of vision in one eye. It is among the initial manifestations of multiple sclerosis (MS) and occurs secondary to ...

Since the publication of the above article, the authors have noticed that one of the author names was missing. The correct list of authors is shown below: J Pulido, SA Cross, VA Lennon, J Pulido, D ...

Optic atrophy is a condition in which the optic nerve begins to deteriorate. The optic nerve is the nerve at the back of your eye that connects your eye to your brain, allowing you to see. There are a ...

I am treating a 44-year-old woman with a history of 4 episodes of optic neuritis. The first episode caused blindness in her left eye, and the right eye acuity is now about 20/100. Her MRI results ...