Background and Methods. The use of corticosteroids to treat optic neuritis is controversial.
At 15 clinical centers, we randomly assigned 457 patients with acute optic neuritis to receive …

Background Optic neuritis is often the first clinical manifestation of multiple sclerosis, but little
is known about the effect of corticosteroid treatment for optic neuritis on the subsequent risk …

Importance To our knowledge, there are no large prospective cohorts of untreated patients
with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) to characterize the disease. Objective To report …

PATHOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL data from 56 patients operated on for craniopharyngioma
since 1981 were analyzed to determine the utility of dividing patients with this tumor into …

… As expected, acetazolamide-treated participants had a marked decrease in mean carbon
dioxide level and a marked increase in mean chloride level compared with placebo-treated …

OBJECTIVE: To review the natural history and determine the rates of intra-and extralesional
hemorrhaging of brainstem cavernous malformations (cavernomas) monitored by one neuro-…

✓ Endovascular therapy of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM's) is an accepted
adjunct to surgical therapy. However, the literature has not characterized the benefits or the …

Background Generalized myasthenia gravis will develop in more than 50% of patients who
present with ocular myasthenia gravis, typically within 2 years. The optimal treatment of …

… Am J Ophthalmol. 2004 Oct;138(4):695; author reply 695. This article has been corrected.
See Am J Ophthalmol. 2004 Aug;138(2):following 321. This article has been corrected. See …

The location and extent of an abnormal signal on MRI of the optic nerve affected by optic
neuritis are said to correlate with the severity of initial visual loss and recovery. We used …