A 53-year-old man presented to the hospital after losing vision in his left eye. He explained that he had been given his second dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine (Comirnaty) 10 days previously. He said ...

Vision often worsens early in nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, and a past episode in the other eye predicts the decline but common cardiovascular factors do not, a study finds.

The correct diagnosis of anterior optic neuritis was made based on the correlation of onset of decreased vision, pain on EOM testing, presence of an APD, decreased color vision and red desaturation, ...

Ischemic optic neuropathies are the most common acute optic nerve pathology in patients older than 50 years of age. A 62-year-old Asian man presents to the emergency department with a complaint of ...

Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) occurs when there is not enough blood flow into the eye. This causes damage to the optic nerve, quickly leading to vision loss. There are two subtypes of AION ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 63-year-old woman was referred to the neuro-ophthalmology service at the New England Eye Center for evaluation ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 55-year-old man at Tufts Medical Center for hypovolemic shock due to a gastrointestinal hemorrhage was ...

One cause of a sudden loss of vision is referred to in medical terms as ischemic optic neuropathy. There are two types. One is caused by inflamed arteries in the eye that flow to the optic nerve, and ...

Nonarteritic, anterior ischemic optic neuropathy is the most common form of ischemic optic neuropathy. 3,4 Typical presentation includes acute, unilateral, and painless loss of central and/or ...