PMID- 25116784
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20161101
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1998-3689 (Electronic)
IS  - 0301-4738 (Print)
IS  - 0301-4738 (Linking)
VI  - 62
IP  - 7
DP  - 2014 Jul
TI  - Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy in association with optic nervehead drusen.
PG  - 829-31
LID - 10.4103/0301-4738.138636 [doi]
AB  - Optic nerve head drusen (ONHD) are incidental ophthalmologic finding in the optic 
      nerve. Patients with ONHD are often asymptomatic, but sometimes present with 
      transient visual obscuration's (TVO), the reported incidence of which is 8.6%. 
      Optic nerve head drusen are of two types: Superficial; visible and deep. The 
      deep-buried drusen mimic papilledema. Because of the varied presentation 
      deep-buried drusen pose a diagnostic challenge to the ophthalmologists. In young 
      patients, they are mistaken for papilledema as it is clinically difficult to 
      detect a buried drusen in the optic nerve head, but are seen on the surface with 
      aging as the retinal nerve fiber layer thins out. They are observed as pale 
      yellow lesions more often located towards the poles. Clinical examination aided 
      with diagnostic tests like computed tomography (CT) orbits and ultrasound B scan 
      can help establish the diagnosis. Herein, we report a rare case of optic nerve 
      head drusen in a young lady, who presented with loss of vision and clinical 
      evaluation and investigations suggested ONHD with anterior ischemic optic 
      neuropathy.
FAU - Megur, Bharathi
AU  - Megur B
AD  - Department of Uvea and R etina, Megur Eye Care Centre, Bidar, Karnataka, India.
FAU - Megur, Deepak
AU  - Megur D
FAU - Megur, Umesh
AU  - Megur U
FAU - Reddy, Sandeep
AU  - Reddy S
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - India
TA  - Indian J Ophthalmol
JT  - Indian journal of ophthalmology
JID - 0405376
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Optic Disk/*pathology
MH  - Optic Disk Drusen/*complications/diagnosis/physiopathology
MH  - Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic/*diagnosis/etiology/physiopathology
MH  - Tomography, Optical Coherence/*methods
MH  - Visual Acuity/*physiology
PMC - PMC4152661
COIS- Conflict of Interest: None declared
EDAT- 2014/08/15 06:00
MHDA- 2016/11/02 06:00
PMCR- 2014/07/01
CRDT- 2014/08/14 06:00
PHST- 2014/08/14 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/08/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/11/02 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2014/07/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - IndianJOphthalmol_2014_62_7_829_138636 [pii]
AID - IJO-62-829 [pii]
AID - 10.4103/0301-4738.138636 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Indian J Ophthalmol. 2014 Jul;62(7):829-31. doi: 10.4103/0301-4738.138636.