The patient's initial symptoms of blurred vision and an enlarged blind spot in his left eye are not typical of a chiasm-compressing pituitary mass. Classically, patients with lesions of the chiasm ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 77-year-old man was referred to the neuro-ophthalmology clinic at Tufts/New England Eye Center for bilateral ...

Did you know your eyes can reveal diabetes, heart issues, or tumors? Discover which systemic diseases manifest through vision ...

Figure 1. Humphrey visual field (HVF) testing, multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG), and fundus autofluorescence (FAF) clinical tests helped diagnose a case of multiple evanescent white dot syndrome.

On the left is a normal optic nerve (light circle at center) and on the right is the optic nerve swelling seen in IIH. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

The human body is complex, and many things can go wrong while a baby is developing. Sometimes, genetic mutations occur, or things don’t form quite right. One condition that can result from ...

An optic nerve glioma is a type of noncancerous, slow-growing tumor that develops in the glial cells of the optic nerve. They are most common in children. Doctors may refer to this type of tumor as ...

Electron microscope image of a nerve fiber with myelin (in black) in the optic nerve of an MS patient. In yellow, the spaces between myelin layers that are enlarged in MS) Disclaimer: AAAS and ...