Surgery can target this serious eye condition in various ways. In glaucoma, high intraocular (inside the eye) pressure threatens the optic nerve, which transmits visual information from the eye to ...

The condition appears to be triggered when the optic nerve swells, choking off its blood supply because the nerve's pathway ...

Traumatic optic neuropathy is visual loss caused by trauma to the optic nerve. Injuries, classified as direct or indirect, are also characterized by location. Intracanalicular optic nerve injury ...

Patient positioning is a critical aspect of spine surgery that can significantly ... intraocular pressure and potential damage to the optic nerve[2][3]. Research emphasizes the need for surgical ...

Our results suggest that surgery can be helpful in the management of this condition. Transethmoid-sphenoid optic nerve decompression is a minimally invasive procedure that gave, in this series ...

You may have heard the term “glaucoma” before, but what is it really, and how do you know if you have it? Glaucoma is an eye disease in which the optic nerve is damaged over time due to elevated ...