High intraocular pressure (ocular hypertension) can damage your optic nerve. This nerve transmits visual images from your eye to your brain. Pigment dispersion syndrome is often underdiagnosed ...

In the present case, the relatively distant location of the nerve fiber layer hemorrhage from the swollen optic nerve head represents ... the level of the retinal pigment epithelium representing ...

Under normal circumstances, the light would interact with the pigment, which generates an electrical signal that then starts the process of sending an impulse through the optic nerve to the ...