Optic disc cupping after optic neuritis evaluated with optic coherence tomography

Optic Radiation Abnormalities after Optic Neuritis

S. C. Kolbe, C. Bajraszewski, C. Chapman, T. Nguyen, L. Johnston, P. Mitchell, M. Paine, H. Butzkueven, T. Kilpatrick, and G. Egan Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Neuroophthalmology Unit, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Electrical ...

Topographic optic disc changes after successful trabeculectomy evaluated using spectral domain optical coherence tomography.

PURPOSE To investigate topographic optic disc changes after surgical intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction in adults with open angle glaucoma (OAG). METHODS Optic discs of patients with advanced primary open angle or exfoliation glaucoma were imaged using optical coherence tomography within 1 week before trabeculectomy. Patients were rescanned 1 week, 1 month, and 1 year after surgery. Maximum...

Clinical characteristics of nonglaucomatous optic disc cupping

Pathological optic disc cupping (ODC) is predominantly referred to as glaucoma; however, it is not only glaucoma that leads to pathological optic disc excavation. A number of other nonglaucomatous diseases also result in optic atrophy and excavation of the optic disc. Therefore, in the present study, the etiology of nonglaucomatous optic disc cupping (NGODC) was analyzed and differentiated from...

Pathogenesis of cupping of the optic disc.

Pathogenesis of cupping of the optic disc

Optic disc cupping (ODC) is a classical feature of chronic simple glaucoma. In attempts to explain the pathogenesis of ODC, a very large volume of literature has accumulated since its discovery over I 20 years ago, but the mechanism is still far from clear. The presence of ODC with no rise in intraocular pressure (IOP), first described by von Graefe (I857), has further contributed to the confus...