Optic neuritis refers to an acute unilateral inflammation of the optic nerve, typically associated with an immune-mediated demyelinating condition – specifically, multiple sclerosis or neuromyelitis optica. From: Headache and Migraine Biology and Management, 2015 ...
OPTIC NEURITISINTRACRANIAL OPTIC NERVEASPERGILLOSISAUTOPSYA 67-year-old woman who complained of unilateral progressive visual disturbance and headache was initially diagnosed as having anterior ischemic optic neuropathy because of pale optic disc swelling and a small hemorrhage. Corticosteroid administration ...
The pain is worse with intense mental activity. The vision becomes dim or blurred during periods of heightened anxiety. They experience flickering or flashes of light in the field of vision. The eye complaints are associated with pain in the head and the headache worsens with visual disturbances...
Gadolinium-enhanced fat-suppressed MRI of the orbits has been shown to be up to 94% sensitive for the detection of optic neuritis.28 Failure to consider or appropriately weigh alternative diagnoses was the second most common type of error. Most notably, this was failure to consider headache or...
On Oct 6th, the patient had blurred vision in both eyes without any obvious cause, and the symptoms persisted and gradually worsened. On Oct 7th, she suddenly became unable to see in both eyes, without obvious eye distension, ophthalmalgia, eye rotation pain, visual distortion, headache, nause...
In 2013, she presented with headache, ophthalmoplegia, and left facial droop. On examination, she had one-and-half syndrome, left facial droop, right hemiparesis. Her optic nerves were normal. MRI brain showed a space-occupying lesion in the pons and midbrain initially thought to reflect a ...
optic neuritis and the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shows two or more hyperintense lesions in the brain, that patient has a greater than 70% risk of developing MS. On the other hand, an otherwise asymptomatic optic neuritis patient who has no MRI lesions in the brain has only a 25% ...
Optic neuritis (ON) is the most common cause of subacute optic neuropathy in young adults. Although most cases of optic neuritis (ON) are classified as typical, meaning idiopathic or associated with multiple sclerosis, there is a growing understanding of atypical forms of optic neuritis such as ...
Three patients with acute monocular central scotoma and headache had the initial diagnosis of optic neuritis. Computed tomography showed large pituitary adenomas with necrosis and cyst formation consistent with the clinical symptoms of a previous pituitary apoplexy. After transsphenoidal adenomectomy the ...
(OCT) was a standard marker for optic neuropathies and some systemic pathologies.Citation11–14Thickening of the pRNFL mostly occurred during the acute phases of conditions such as active uveitis, acute optic neuritis, and early Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathyCitation13–15; however, the pR...