Prolonged premonitory optic disc signs in anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.
A patient displayed a pink mass on the right optic disc and normal visual function that was diagnosed as a capillary hemangioma. Seven months later, he developed typical features of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) in that eye. Such a long latency between "preeruptive" and "eruptive" disc edema has not been well documented in NAION.
Retina and Neuro-Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
Jonathan L
JL
Prenner
Atul
A
Sharma
Michael S
MS
Ibarra
Albert M
AM
Maguire
Nicholas J
NJ
Volpe
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D018324:Hemangioma, Capillary / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000473:pathology*; D019574:Optic Nerve Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D018917:Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010211:Papilledema / Q000175:diagnosis*