Demyelinating optic neuritis is the most common cause of unilateral painful visual loss in the United States. Although patients presenting with demyelinating optic neuritis have favorable long-term visual prognosis, optic neuritis is the initial clinical manifestation of multiple sclerosis in 20% of patients. The Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial (ONTT) has helped stratify the risk of developing m...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Optic neuritis is the most common cause of optic neuropathy in young adults. High-dose intravenous corticosteroids (IVCS) were established as the standard of treatment for acute optic neuritis via the Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial (ONTT), with its first findings published more than 20 years ago. Subsequent studies have further clarified the role of corticosteroids in the trea...

PURPOSE To study the range of ocular symptoms in a cohort of patients with chikungunya infection. DESIGN Retrospective, observational case series. METHODS Patients attending a tertiary eye care hospital in South India were included in the study. We included adult patients with serologically confirmed chikungunya virus infection who received clinical care at the Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai...

Optic neuritis is commonly associated with diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, infections, taking special drugs, etc. but recently we have observed a patient that presented retro bulbar optic neuritis as a manifestation of antiphospholipid syndrome. A 35 y/o young woman with the history of chickenpox admitted to the Qhaem hospital (Mashhad, Iran) with the c/o progressive pain and blurred visio...

Posterior vitreous fluorophotometry measurements have been shown to be increased in patients with acute retrobulbar neuritis. We studied 12 patients who had optic neuropathy by posterior vitreous fluorophotometry, with and without correction for blood fluorescein concentration. Both uncorrected and corrected posterior vitreous measurements were increased in patients with inflammatory, obstructi...

Optic neuritis associated with multiple sclerosis has a strong association with organ-specific autoimmune disease. The goal of our research is to establish an optimal organ-specific animal model to elucidate the pathogenetic mechanisms of the disease and to develop therapeutic strategies using the model. This paper is divided into five sections: (1) clinical picture of optic neuritis associated...

We have studied the clinical picture of anti-aquaporin antibody (AQP4-Ab)- and anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody (MOG-Ab)-positive optic neuritis. However, optic neuritis associated with MOG-Abs has not been elucidated using new methods such as cell-based assay. Hence, we conducted a comprehensive investigation on its clinical profile. Serum samples from 70 patients (17 males an...

Fifteen patients with ischemic optic neuritis studied electrophysiologically had a characteristic change of marked reduction in the amplitude of the visual-evoked response even when loss of vision was moderate. The optic neuritis of multiple sclerosis rarely produced this change. Occasionally, small increases in the latent period of the visual-evoked response were recorded from the patients wit...

AIM To describe clinical features and outcome of a series of children with first-episode optic neuritis investigated in three paediatric neurology centres. METHODS Databases were searched to identify children (<16 years) with optic neuritis and life table analysis was used. RESULTS 44 children (female/male ratio 1.8) median age 10.9 years were followed up for median 1 year. Optic neuritis w...

Corticosteroids shorten the period of functional impairment following relapses in optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis (MS); however they have not, thus far, been shown to affect the final level of function compared with placebo. There has been recent interest in the use of corticosteroids as neuroprotective agents by their effect of decreasing nitric oxide (NO) production by mononuclear cells...