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More than meets the eye: Point-of-care ultrasound diagnosis of acute optic neuritis in the emergency department.
American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019 January
Optic neuritis (ON) is an inflammatory condition that causes demyelination and thickening of the optic nerve leading to acute/subacute vision loss. It is frequently associated with other conditions like multiple sclerosis, but is often misdiagnosed, which can lead to a suboptimal prognosis. Ultrasound is rarely utilized to help make this diagnosis, even though it can easily detect a thickened retrobulbar optic nerve sheath diameter. We describe four cases in which ultrasonographic measurement of the optic nerve sheath diameter aided in the diagnosis of ON.
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