Abstract
OPTIC neuritis is an acute inflammatory optic neuropathy with an average annual incidence of 6.4 cases per 100,000 in Olmsted County, Minnesota — the only American population for which such data are available.1 About half the cases are idiopathic, and the other half are associated with multiple sclerosis. The clinical picture of optic neuritis has been fully characterized in retrospective and prospective analyses.2 3 4 It is found in persons of all ages, with the peak incidence in the third and fourth decades. Cases in females outnumber those in males by two to one. The disorder is overwhelmingly uniocular in adults. Pain, . . .
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