[2] Without looking for other less obvious "clues" in the retina and choroid, the striking appearance of a bilateral swelling of the optic nerve heads can misdirect investigation toward less ...

A five-year-old lost an eye after a routine test found a "golf ball-sized" tumor. Riley Thompson was diagnosed with an optic ...

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can cause vision loss due to damage to the optic nerve, which transmits ... While ...

With neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders, your body's immune system attacks healthy nerves by mistake and causes damage to the central nervous system aside from the optic nerve. Swelling and ...

A 12-YEAR-OLD boy has been left blind because he would only eat burgers and doughnuts. The unnamed child who lived in the US ...

Some common eye diseases are refractive errors, cataracts, optic nerve disorders like glaucoma, retinal d ...

Doctors are raising awareness of a type of eating disorder after seeing a case of a 17-year-old left with permanent 'blind ...

The results of Yu-Wai-Man and colleagues confirm the syndromic association of extraocular features with mitochondrial diseases affecting the optic nerve. The search for further genes involved in ...

Since being diagnosed with the rare optic nerve disorder, Leber's hereditary optic ... time when I was possibly thinking of having another child,” said Paula. “We never did have another ...

Cataracts, dry eyes, glaucoma, and other eye problems become more common with age. But these can be treated and even cured if ...

The retina contains millions of cells that perceive light, color, and fine details in the things you see. A number of ...