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01-06-2018 | Review Article

Pain in optic neuropathies

Authors: Stefania Bianchi Marzoli, Alessandra Criscuoli

Published in: Neurological Sciences | Special Issue 1/2018

Abstract

Pain occurs with optic neuropathies associated with inflammatory central nervous system diseases (MS and NMO), idiopathic intracranial hypertension and spontaneous hypotension, giant cell arteritis, immunomediated systemic diseases, compressive lesions, or infective disorders. Pain can precede the onset of visual loss in acute optic neuritis, it can be irradiated to the orbital region in giant cell arteritis and parasellar compressive optic neuropathies, or it may be located to the back of the eye with posterior scleritis. History of symptoms together with complete neuro-ophthalmological examination must guide the differential diagnosis and neuroimaging. Painful visual loss due to different pathophysiological mechanisms requires specific treatment and prognosis.

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Title: Pain in optic neuropathies
Authors: Stefania Bianchi Marzoli
Alessandra Criscuoli
Publication date: 01-06-2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Neurological Sciences / Issue Special Issue 1/2018
Print ISSN: 1590-1874
Electronic ISSN: 1590-3478
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-018-3334-1

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