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 — ...

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 (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 ...

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

The peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) and the macular ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) are important predictive factors for the prognosis of optic neuritis (ON). We ...

"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 nerve involvement is common among patients presenting with CIS of MS. Adding the optic nerve as a fifth site for dissemination in space fulfillment increases the sensitivity, decreases the ...