Dr.B Chandra Sekharan, Dr. SUPRITHY SOMINENI RAGHUPATHY, DR. DARSHAN BHATT
Abstract
Demyelinating optic neuritis is the most common cause of unilateral visual loss in young women who more often affected than men with a peak manifestation between the ages of 15 and 49. For the purpose of this research, three cases were reviewed presenting with clinical findings suggestive of Optic neuritis in out-patient department of Ophthalmology and were evaluated according to the symptoms at the time of presentation. The cases under evaluation in this study were three females from varied age groups who presented with different clinical findings of the same pathology. We evaluated the differential diagnosis of optic neuritis in all these cases, clinical signs that require immediate intervention, progression of the disease, causes of recurrence and and diagnostic assessment of associated diseases. All the cases were treated following the ONTT trial and different outcomes of all patients have been discussed.
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