Additionally, optic nerve drusen, both visible and buried, can also give the appearance of pseudo-papilledema. True papilledema often presents with optic nerve hyperemia with obscuration of disc ...

Optic disc drusen are known to be associated with various vascular abnormalities in the eye. 2 These include optociliary shunts, anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy, central retinal artery ...

Optic nerve drusen is also called optic disc drusen. 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.

Our patient was diagnosed with pseudopapilledema secondary to bilateral optic disc drusen. His diagnosis was explained to his foster father in order to avoid unnecessary emergency room visits and ...

Finally, structural optic nerve abnormalities such as disc drusen may sometimes be misdiagnosed as disc edema. Additional workup ...

Drusen can be buried underneath the optic disc or be on the surface of the optic disc, where they are more likely to be visible, and are more commonly bilateral than unilateral.

While the cause of most cases is unexplained, they noted specific etiologies linked with it, including sleep apnea syndrome, medications such as interferons or sildenafil, and optic disc drusen.

Stanford (Calif.) Medicine used a $10 million gift to launch a medical center focusing on optic disc drusen, a poorly understood eye disease.

Pseudopapillema may be due to optic disc drusen, or certain congenital conditions of the disc, as well as optic disc hypoplasia. Non-papilledematous optic disc swelling may be due to infection ...