Optic nerve atrophy is damage to the optic nerve. Causes include poor blood flow to the eye, disease, trauma, or exposure to toxic substances.Ophthalmologist Raj Pathmaraj explains more about this.

The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...

Note the splinter hemorrhages at the level of the nerve fiber layer, more than 1 disc area away from the optic nerve head ... of retinal pigment epithelial atrophy corresponding to previous ...

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In a hopeful step for medicine, a 2-and-a-half-year-old child born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA ... now-resolved ...

Among those pathologies are the ones that are widespread, like age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and geographic atrophy ... to also analyze the optic nerve.