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The study consisted of both eyes of 96 women (57%) and 72 men (43%) with a self-described racial composition of 162 (96%) white, 1 African American, 2 Asian, 2 Hispanic, and 1 native American. The ...
Fundus examination showed presence of well-marked optic disc drusen in both eyes (Figure 1a, b). In addition, she had NVD in both eyes with a small optic disc haemorrhage in the left eye.
Both eyes featured optic disc swelling with vessel obscuration and peripapillary flame hemorrhages, cotton wool spots and venous tortuosity. Issue: April 25, 2017. ByGeetha Athappilly, MD.
Optic nerve drusen is also called optic disc drusen. ... This means that it affects both of your eyes. However, the condition can be more severe in one eye than it is in the other.
In studies comparing both eyes of patients with glaucoma, the eye with the larger optic disc showed neither more nor less damage than the contra-lateral eye, indicating that damage is not ...
The optic disc is a non-sensory spot in the retina where the axons of the ganglion cells carrying afferent light-induced impulses to the visual cortex of the brain converge to leave the eye.
To investigate the anatomic characteristics of eyes with pathological myopia and peripapillary intrachoroidal cavitation (ICC) located temporal to the optic disc. A total of 125 with pathologic ...
A disc at risk is essential for the development of nonarteritic anterior ION . 7–9 Other optic-nerve anomalies resulting in crowding of the optic-nerve head, such as optic-nerve drusen and ...
Papilledema is swelling of your optic nerve, which connects the eye and brain. This swelling is a reaction to a buildup of pressure in or around your brain that may have many causes.. Often, it's ...
There were chorioretinal scars adjacent to the optic disc in each eye. Results from an MRI of the brain with contrast and magnetic resonance venography of the head were both normal. Lumbar ...
Figure 1. A and B are funduscopy images of the first case. Right and left eyes, respectively, illustrating optic disc swelling predominantly in the left eye with some hemorrhages at the critical ...
NAION is one of two types of anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION). Both types of AION affect the optic disc, a 1-millimeter segment of the head of the optic nerve, causing visible swelling of ...