Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Band optic atrophy is described as a horizontal band of optic disc pallor, often associated with a contralateral ...

Purpose It has been suggested that over-reliance on the cup-to-disc ratio is a major factor in the misinterpretation of the optic disc. In spite of this optometrist assessment of the optic disc tends ...

Optic atrophy is a degenerative disease of the optic nerve that leads to gradual damage to the retinal ganglion cells - the nerve cells that transmit visual signals from the retina to the brain. The ...

Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA), the most common genetic optic neuropathy, is an insidious disease. It often presents slowly during childhood by way of blurry vision, trouble reading or ...

Bilateral optic disc swelling is an important clinical sign that can reflect a variety of inflammatory, infectious, toxic, metabolic, genetic, or vascular conditions, such as hypertension. [1] It can ...

Traumatic optic nerve head avulsion and traumatic optic neuropathy are serious and can be visually devastating. Most cases have poor prognosis for visual recovery, leaving patients with minimal or no ...

A research team from the Medical University of Vienna and the Medical University of Graz has discovered a previously unknown genetic cause of hereditary optic atrophy, a degenerative disease of the ...

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: STOK), a biotechnology company dedicated to addressing the underlying cause of severe diseases by upregulating protein expression ...

Each terminal choroidal arteriole supplies an independent lobule (segment) of the lamina choriocapillaris. Occlusion of these terminal arterioles produces a corresponding perfusion defect, and its ...