Any cure or recommendation for optic nerve damage?

[zering]

I had a optic nerve damage in my right eye when I was a kid (25 yrs ago). This was a result after an object got in to my eye pupil and damaged a part of it. However, I had a surgery back then and the vision wasn't really fixed but If I close my left eye  then i can see objects in the right part of my right eye but very blurring. I can almost sense it when it moves and etc. Anyway, I did follow up with some eye specialist after that and they advised me to wait for the technology. So I have seen any specialist in the past 8 years and I wonder if there is any fix for it yet? or any recommendation is appreciated?
Any other additional information is appreciated and I can be reached at zering.***@****

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

I do not know how to recommend the best doctors in India.

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, Oct 28, 2008 08:34PM
Tags: Best Eye Centers
There are many questions posted here by people with very complex eye problems or things that are very difficult to diagnose. I'm often asked WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR THESE EYE PROBLEMS.

Each year academic eye surgeons are polled about their opinion of the best programs in the USA (which put them on a par with anywhere in the world). Here is the 2008 list as published in the October 15, 2008 Ophthalmology Times>

BEST OVERALL OPHTHALMOLOGY PROGRAMS:
1. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of U of Miami
2. Wilmer Eye Institute of John Hopkins University
3. Wills Eye Hospital/Thomas Jefferson University
4. Duke University
5. Jules Stein Eye Institute/UCLA
6. (tie) Beckman Vision Center/U Cal San Francisco  AND WK Kellogg Eye Center U of Michigan
8. U of Iowa and Emory Eye Center/ Emory University
10. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard

This does not mean that every complex or difficult problem needs to trek to these centers as there are literally hundreds of other fine centers, hospitals, clinics and outstanding ophthalmologists in private practice.

Nevertheless because this comes up so much I wanted to post this list. I'm pleased that the program that I trained in (Emory Eye Center) is listed in the top ten in all lists: Best overall Program, Best Research Programs, Best Ophthalmology Residency and Best Clinical-Patient Care Programs.

JCH MD

[just871]

hi my name is justine pett and i have bih and i had a papilladema in my right eye and now iam blind in the right eye is there any treatment to correct this or is this permanent

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Too many acronyms. What is "BIH"? Do you mean "benign intracranial hypertension"  that's not the preferred name for it. Preferred is pseudotumor cerebri"  Treatment is to lower the intracranial pressure with DIAMOX or optic nerve fenestration surgery.

If the nerve is dead (total optic atrophy) there is likely no cure and your goal should be to protect the other eye from having the same problem or new disease or injury.

See a second neuroophthalmologist for a second opinion.

JCH MD

[Kabir947]

Hello Doctor,

   My fiancee had a problem with her eye for a longtime. She got the retina detachment couple of year ago in her left eye.  After surgery, she had the blury vision in that eye but after some the vision gone away.  At the moment, she got couple of surgery but no results.  In her recent visit to the doctor, she was advise that there is no problem with the retina detachment but optic nerves has been damaged.  Only 5% of optic nerves are working.  Her eyes are getting smaller and squinted.  She has no vision in her left eye. She is 26 years old and i want to get her cured.

    If there is a chance to regain her vision, then how we proceed, cause if you can cure her,  I am living in New Zealand and my fiancee is in india, you are in US so how to get appointment for medical treatment and what would be the expense at your side and what would be the duration and possibilities?

Dr John if you can send me those details through email ***@**** then i will be oblige.  

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

I am sad to tell you that it is likely that no surgeon anywhere in the world can fix a 95% dead optic nerve. India has some excellent ophthalmologists and its likely they've done all they can. The situation is best dealt with by protecting the good eye from disease and injury, wearing protective glasses, and seeing an ophthalmologist that specializes in retina disease yearly. And seeing the ophthalmologist immediately with increase of floaters, flashes of light and loss of peripheral vision in the "good" eye.

JCH MD

[Berginha]

Hello, suffered a car accident in September 2008 and was operated at the cervical spine and wheat paste used for a month, then started to have blurred vision and has made examination of visual field and can say that have affected the optic nerve and assm is if there is no treatment and that I will be blind, it is true?

my email: ***@****