Rarely, patients with giant cell arteritis experience symptoms of fluctuating monocular vision, which can herald imminent infarction of the optic nerve head. These patients require immediate ...

Giant cell arteritis, or GCA ... One of the arteries that is commonly affected provides blood to the optic nerve, and if the optic nerve is starved of blood it can lead to irreversible sight ...

She was found to have a pale swelling of the right optic nerve head (Figure b ... we diagnosed anterior ischemic optic neuropathy in giant cell arteritis. We immediately started systemic steroid ...

[19] Posterior scleritis can result in choroidal folds, exudative retinal detachment, and optic nerve compression ... sedimentation rate; GCA, giant cell arteritis; RR, reported risk.