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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Optic Neuritis
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Clinical Findings, Diagnosis, Imaging Studies, Treatment, Outcome, Prognosis, When to Refer, References.
Excerpt: | |  Multiple sclerosis will develop in 50% of patients with clinically isolated optic neuritis
| | – The visual and neurologic prognosis is good – The major risk factors are female sex and multiple white matter lesions on brain MRI |
In patients with multiple cerebral white matter lesions, | | – Long-term interferon therapy reduces the risk of subsequent development of multiple sclerosis by 25% at 5 years – However, some patients do not respond – Other disease-modifying drugs are available (see Multiple sclerosis) |
Optic neuritis due to sarcoidosis, neuromyelitis optica, herpes..."
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