What Is Optic Nerve Drusen? Optic nerve drusen is a rare eye condition that affects between 3 and 24 people out of every 1,000 in the population. It’s difficult to estimate exactly how common ...

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Pseudopapillema may be due to optic disc drusen, or certain congenital conditions ... However, some frontal tumors may induce nerve atrophy on one side with swelling of the disc in the other ...

Pseudopapilledema is a term that refers to optic nerve head anomalies that may give the appearance of true optic nerve edema. True optic nerve edema may be secondary to increased intracranial ...

Optic nerve drusen (OND), acellular calcium deposits ... A second aim was to correlate the presence of disc drusen to defects within the RNFL using OCT. Patients who underwent OCT were seen ...

Some types of drusen are associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The retina is a thin layer of tissue that lines the back of the inside of the eye, near the optic nerve.

Crowding of the disc leads to mechanical compression of the optic-nerve fibers against the lamina cribrosa, followed by impairment of axonal flow and capillary perfusion of the optic-nerve head.

At ARVO 2025, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Danielle Gauthuer talked about her poster on autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease in relation to optic nerve head drusen.

“Ischemia” is the term doctors use when a part of the body stops getting enough oxygen as a result of restricted blood flow. This is because blood carries oxygen in the body. In the case of ...