Optic Neuritis after Measles

Measles-virus-specific IgG in optic neuritis and in multiple sclerosis after optic neuritis.

Measles-virus-specific IgG was measured in the serum of 100 patients who had presented with optic neuritis (ON) during 1960-74. When reviewed 41 of them were found to have developed definite symptoms and signs of multiple sclerosis (MS), their serum containing significantly higher titres of the antibody than sera from either the rest of the patients or a group of normal healthy controls. In a f...

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 ...

Early Onset Optic Neuritis Following Measles-Rubella Vaccination

PURPOSE To report two cases of optic neuritis with onset less than 24 hours following measles-rubella (MR) vaccination. CASE REPORT Two teenage patients developed acute optic neuritis 6 to 7 hours after MR booster vaccination. The first patient demonstrated bilateral papillitis and severe visual loss but improved significantly with pulse intravenous steroid therapy with methylprednisolone 500...

The first rapid onset optic neuritis after measles-rubella vaccination: case report.

During the largest mass campaign for measles-rubella (MR) vaccination 33,000,000 people with an age range of 5-25 years were vaccinated in Iran. Some complications were encountered, including a rare case of optic neuritis. In the past 30 years of medical literature, five cases of optic neuritis have been reported but all of them were developed at least 8 days after vaccination. We are supposed ...

Bilateral optic neuritis after inactivated influenza vaccination.