Introduction: Optic atrophy results from the disease process that cause irreversible damage to ganglion cells and anterior visual pathway, but may also result posterior pathway involvement. The etiology causing this condition is vast regardless of underlying it carries bad prognosis at times be life threatening. study aims assess patients with optic nerve presenting B.P. Koirala lions centre fo...

treated with corticosteroids was found to have a statistically significant higher mortality rate compared to the placebo group [4]. This means that not only is the treatment with high dose corticosteroids not beneficial in cases of TON, it may in fact be harmful when given to patients with severe head trauma and brain injury. We present the case of a patient with bilateral TON. Bilateral TON is...

CASE REPORTS We present two cases of blunt ocular trauma with clinical findings and complementary tests compatible with traumatic optic neuropathy (TON), and progression to sectorial optic atrophy. DISCUSSION TON have an essentially clinical diagnosis, and in the last few years has been treated with high doses of intravenous steroids, based on weak evidence of the benefit of the steroids in c...

INTRODUCTION Serious injury to the optic nerve is an uncommon entity but may result in permanent visual disability. Isolated trauma of the optic nerve is usually associated with blunt skull trauma involving fractures of both skull and optic canal, but may also occur from blunt ocular trauma. CASE PRESENTATION We report a woman who developed isolated unilateral optic nerve edema with correspon...

PURPOSE Traumatic optic neuropathy often induces a loss of vision that proceeds rapidly within several hours, together with retinal ganglion cell death, in a much slower time course. Electrical stimulation has previously been shown to rescue injured retinal ganglion cells from cell death. The present study tests whether transcorneal electrical stimulation could preserve visual function after an...

Dear Editor: We read with great interest, the case report on ischemic optic neuropathy (1). We would like to add a few points concerning the blood supply of the optic nerve and the correlation with the development of post-operative ischemic neuropathy. Actually, the perioperative or post-operative vision loss (postoperative ischemic neuropathy) is most likely due to ischemic optic neuropathy. I...

Purpose: To review primary literature on ocular and orbital injury secondary to all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). Methods: A Medline search of English language literature. Results: Very few studies detail ocular and orbital manifestations of ATV crashes. The most common ocular injuries included orbital fractures and eyelid lacerations. Less common but more severe injuries included traumatic optic ne...