No there is no correlation to any systemic disease.
JCH MD
Are there any correlation between hypothyroidism and optic nerve head drusen...........and high cholesterol. I have a 16 year old with all three - have always thought if odd that a child so young would have optic nerve head drusen and high cholesterol.........and we've just recently discovered the thyroid disease.
There are no ways of managing optic nerve head drusen. It messes up the visual field so glaucoma patients have to be treated based on family history, IOP, and NFL OCT.
Optic nerve decompression surgery would not help ON drusen.
Most people manage with mile or no VF loss. Some are aware of VF loss but function pretty well.
Patients need to be advised about telling other physicians their ON may look like its swollen (pseudopapilledema).
There is a somewhat increase incidence of macular and periocular neovascularization.
JCH MD