Thirty patients with clinically uncomplicated optic neuritis were subjected to a battery of electrophysiological tests, including visual evoked response (VER), auditory brainstem evoked response (ABER) and somatosensory evoked response (SSER). Blink reflex, electronystagmography (ENG), and computed tomography examinations were also carried out on all patients. These non-invasive tests indicated...

OBJECTIVE To monitor the difference in conversion rates to multiple sclerosis (MS) in 46 patients with optic neuritis between patients with multifocal visual evoked potential latency delay and those with normal latency. DESIGN Prospective case series. SETTING Metropolitan neuro-ophthalmology clinic. PARTICIPANTS Forty-six patients with optic neuritis who did not have a diagnosis of MS on ...

Hepatitis B vaccination can prevent hepatitis B virus infection and its serious consequences, including liver cancer and cirrhosis. Serious side effects reported after receiving hepatitis B vaccination are very uncommon. A majority of the ophthalmological complications seen following hepatitis B vaccination consist of vision loss, optic neuritis, papillary edema, uveitis, acute placoid pigment ...

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Background. Uveitis is 20 times more frequent in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients than in the general population. Methods. A retrospective study of local multiple sclerosis (n = 700) and uveitis cohorts (n = 450) described the ophthalmological and neurological characteristics of patients with multiple sclerosis and uveitis. Results. Uveitis and multiple sclerosis were associated in seven patien...

Vitamin b12 deficiency (VBD) rarely cause involvement of optic nerve. Moreover, atrophy has been reported more commonly than neuritis secondary to VBD. Here, we report a 31-years old male presenting with bilateral but asymmetrical as the first clinical presentation undiagnosed VBD and showed drastic improvement in vision after replacement parenteral followed by oral Vitamin-B12. Thus, patients ...

Given the increasing prevalence of tuberculosis, antitubercular drugs frequently used are also associated with ocular toxicity. Ethambutol is the most commonly implicated drug. It is generally well tolerated, but known to cause optic neuritis, more specifically retro bulbar neuritis causing blurred vision, decreased visual acuity, central scotomas, and loss of red-green color vision. The exact ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical profile of demyelinating optic neuritis in African Americans. METHODS The medical records of all patients with a diagnosis of optic neuritis examined at the Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit at the Emory University Eye Center (Emory) and at the Grady Memorial Hospital Eye Clinic (Grady), Atlanta, Ga, between 1989 and 1996 were retrospectively reviewed. PATIENTS Afr...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Optic neuritis, although uncommon, can be the initial presentation of Sjögren's syndrome. Coexisting Sjögren's syndrome has also been reported with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. This case report highlights the association between the two diseases and the importance of rheumatological and neurological evaluations in patients with such diagnoses. Distinction o...

OPINION STATEMENT Pediatric optic neuritis is a rare disorder causing a subacute loss of vision (often bilateral) in children, often of a severe degree. Common clinical findings include dense visual field loss, afferent pupillary defect (APD) in unilateral cases, and papillitis that is often bilateral. Contrary to optic neuritis in the adult population, the differential diagnosis for this disor...