Thinking about mistakes, especially medical mistakes, is uncomfortable. It is certainly more enjoyable to read about a promising new therapy than to scrutinize the reasons that medical mistakes are ...

A nationwide cohort study of more than 4 million adults showed that people with allergic diseases were nearly one third more likely to develop optic neuritis than those without such conditions, with ...

Optic neuritis is acute inflammation of the optic nerve. Optic nerve is the nerve connecting the eye to the brain. It carries the visual signals from the retina to the brain where it is received and ...

The study looked at the potential benefits of cataract surgery in patients with a prior diagnosis of optic neuropathy. Patients with and without optic neuropathies showed significant improvement in ...

Retrospectively reviewed children younger than 18 years old with optic neuritis in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung Children’s Hospital from 1998 to 2009. Visual recovery from optic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dr. Golnik: My pleasure. Dr. Hovanesian: We are going to talk about optic neuritis, with emphasis on new ...

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 ...

Are you searching for medications to treat 'Optic Neuritis'? Welcome to this page which serves as an archive for medications that are relevant to the treatment of Optic Neuritis. The page includes ...

Optical neuritis is the inflammation and demyelination of one or both eyes. It can be of three types, based on the part of eye, it affects- Papilitis, Neuroretinisis and RetroBulbar Neuritis.

A 37-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a two-week history of blurred central vision in her left eye. She had 20/20 vision in her right eye but could count fingers only at 1.2 m ...

Purpose To describe the clinical profile of idiopathic optic neuritis in South African blacks. Methods South African black patients with acute isolated idiopathic optic neuritis, treated and followed ...

Your optic nerve is important as it is essential to our sight. The optic nerve’s function is to transmit information that we see and what is formed on our retina ...