In this issue of the Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology, a review article on traumatic optic neuropathy by Dr Patrick Yu-Wai-Man1 is included. The article reviews the clinical features and current evidence of treatment for traumatic optic neuropathy. The controversy surrounding the use of steroid in the management of traumatic optic neuropathy has been a matter of debate over a long period. Dr Pat...

OBJECTIVE To present a case with nonalcoholic Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) developing astasia and optic neuropathy as major sequelae. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 47-year-old woman developed WE following operation for pyloric stenosis. She received total parenteral nutrition before and after operation, but on the second postoperative day she developed visual hallucination and co...

UNLABELLED We present a case as a rare sign of traumatic optic neuropathy and central retinal artery occlusion following blunt ocular trauma. A 10-year-old child suffered complete loss of the vision of one eye following a blunt ocular injury. He sustained an occlusion of the central retinal artery and traumatic optic neurupathy of the affected eye. Isolated cases of central retinal vessel occlu...

Purpose. To report on a patient with compressive optic neuropathy secondary to an Onodi cell mucocele, who fully recovered visual function following surgery. Method. Case report. Results. A 28-year-old male was admitted with a right visual acuity of 20/100 following treatment for an initial diagnosis of optic neuritis. Subsequent examination suggested compressive optic neuropathy, and neuroimag...

BACKGROUND Nonarteritic ischemic optic neuropathy affects the anterior portion of the optic nerve and is characterized by sudden, painless visual loss. The affected eye has a relative afferent pupillary defect. The typical funduscopic appearance includes optic disc edema, with associated nerve fiber layer hemorrhage. Risk factors include advanced age, systemic hypertension, nocturnal hypotensio...

A woman developed peripheral neuropathy and optic neuritis while receiving ethambutol in the retreatment of drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis. There was prompt improvement in peripheral neuropathy and the ocular symptoms following the withdrawal of the drug. The clinical events in this case suggest that occasionally symptoms of peripheral neuropathy may precede the development of optic neur...

Optic disc drusen (ODD) are calcific deposits that form in the optic nerve head secondary to abnormalities in axonal metabolism and degeneration. Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, central retinal artery, and vein occlusion are among the rare vascular complications of disc drusen. We reported the clinical course of a 51-year-old patient with a unilateral acute nonarteritic anterior ischemic op...

Background: Diabetes may cause a wide range of eye disorders, including cataracts, glaucoma and other ocular abnormalities, recurrent styes, non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy diabetic papillopathy.

BACKGROUND To describe the first reported case of toxic optic neuropathy secondary to docetaxel (Taxotere®) chemotherapy. CASE PRESENTATION A 53-year-old female presented with predominantly unilateral visual loss, but extensive bilateral visual field defects and bilateral optic nerve head swelling 2 weeks after first dose of docetaxel (Taxotere®) and trastuzumab (Herceptin®) chemotherapy for ...

I n their excellent review of neuromyelitis optica (NMO), Morrow and Wingerchuk (1) discuss the criteria that distinguish this condition from multiple sclerosis. Here, we describe diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) of the optic nerve in a patient with NMO-associated optic neuropathy. A 21-year-old man developed vision loss in the right eye that was diagnosed as optic neuritis. ...