Optic neuritis

Optic neuritis is an eye entity
It is a demyelinating inflammation of optic nerve. It is also known as
- Optic papillitis (When the head of the optic nerve is involved)
- Neuroretinitis (When there is a combined involvement of optic disc and surrounding retina in the macular area)
- Retrobulbar neuritis (When the posterior part of the nerve is involved)


Signs/ Symptoms	Causes	Related Disease	Miasms
Sudden loss of vision (partial or complete) Sudden blurred or "foggy" vision Pain on movement of the affected eye	Para-infectious optic neuritis (associated with Measles ^[1], ^[2] Mumps ^[3] Chickenpox ^[4], Whooping cough Glandular fever Infectious optic neuritis (sinus related or associated with): Cat scratch fever, MTB ^[5], Lyme disease ^[6] Cryptococcal meningitis in AIDS patients	MS Anti-MOG encepahlomyelitis Sarcoidosis SLE Polyarteritis Nodosa Granulomatosis with polyangiitis	EBV WNE

↑ Brit. J. Ophthal. (1963) 47, 180. OPTIC NEURITIS IN MEASLES* BY S. P. SRIVASTAVA AND H. V. NEMA
↑ Moradian S, Ahmadieh H. Early onset optic neuritis following measles-rubella vaccination. J Ophthalmic Vis Res. 2008 Apr;3(2):118-22. PMID: 23479534; PMCID: PMC3589229.
↑ Khubchandani R, Rane T, Agarwal P, Nabi F, Patel P, Shetty AK. Bilateral Neuroretinitis Associated With Mumps. Arch Neurol. 2002;59(10):1633–1636. doi:10.1001/archneur.59.10.1633
↑ Duda JF, Castro JG. Bilateral Retrobulbar Optic Neuritis Caused by Varicella Zoster Virus in a Patient with AIDS. Br J Med Med Res. 2015;5(11):1381-1386. doi: 10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14259. Epub 2014 Nov 11. PMID: 26740936; PMCID: PMC4699296.
↑ Narayanan S, Prakash D, Subramaniam G. Bilateral primary optic neuropathy as the presenting manifestation of tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient. IDCases. 2019 Jul 11;18:e00579. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00579. PMID: 31367519; PMCID: PMC6656685.
↑ Lu, Y., Zand, R. Characteristics of Lyme optic neuritis: a case report of Lyme associated bilateral optic neuritis and systematic review of the literature. BMC Neurol 22, 113 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-022-02627-z

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