"Patients with anti-AQP4-Ab may basically need long-term relapse prevention, because they surely experience much higher relapse activity, with much worse neurological disturbance…In MOGAD patients, ...

The combination of optic neuritis and myelitis, the so-called Neuromyelitis optica is an uncommon pattern of demyelinating disorder. In 1870, Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt first reported the association ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a company release, Horizon Therapeutics announced results from a phase 2/3 trial demonstrating that its ...

Optic neuritis is acute inflammation of the optic nerve. Optic nerve is the nerve connecting the eye to the brain. It carries the visual signals from the retina to the brain where it is received and ...

Although existing research has shown structural differences between multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder in following optic neuritis, the new report also covers non–optic ...

A 71-year-old man was referred by his usual ophthalmologist to the neuro-ophthalmology clinic at Tufts Medical Center for bilateral decreased vision associated with bilateral optic disc edema. His ...

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced the approval of funding awards totaling more than $165 million for new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness ...

Joanna Robles, MD, first began having unusual symptoms in the summer of 2020. She had bouts of nausea and vomiting that she couldn’t explain. Eventually doctors diagnosed her with neuromyelitis optica ...

1. Beck RW, Cleary PA, Anderson MM, et al.: A randomized, controlled trial of corticosteroids in the treatment of acute optic neuritis. The Optic Neuritis Study Group. N Engl J Med 1992; 326: 581–8 ...

Optic neuritis is an inflammation of the optic nerve, leading to swelling and damage to the optic nerve. Symptoms include pain and vision loss. Usually this is temporary. In some cases, it may ...

Your optic nerve is important as it is essential to our sight. The optic nerve’s function is to transmit information that we see and what is formed on our retina ...