Optic neuropathy

Optic neuropathy is a vague catch-all term, and can result form a variety of causes including:

• genetic
  • Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy
• compression / trauma
  • optic nerve sheath meningioma
  • progressive diaphyseal dysplasia
  • shear injury
• infiltration / neoplasm
  • lymphoma
• paraneoplastic
  • collapsin response mediator protein-5 antibody
• nutritional / toxic
  • thiamine deficiency
  • amiodarone toxicity
• inflammation (optic neuritis)
  • infection
    • Lyme disease
    • toxoplasmosis
    • human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • non-infective
    • multiple sclerosis (MS)
    • neuromyelitis optica (NMO)
    • systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
    • sarcoidosis
• vascular
  • ischemic optic neuropathy
    • non-arteritic-anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (NAION) most common 
    • arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy almost always associated with Ischemic optic neuropathy
    • non-arteritic-posterior ischaemic optic neuropathy
    • arteritic-posterior ischaemic optic neuropathy
  • central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO)
  • central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO)

See also

• optic neuritis