With the introduction and development of new diagnostic techniques, the relevance of drusen of the optic nerve di-agnostics is increasing. Existing imaging techniques alone or in their various combinations cannot allow to confirm optic nerve drusen in all clinical cases. The diagnosis of optic nerve drusen causes some difficulties because of absence of clear diagnostic standards and classification. Since the advent of new ophthalmological methods of structural and topographic visual analysis evaluation, such as spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, Heidelberg retina tomography, videooculography, B-scan ultrasonography of the orbits and optic nerve, fluorescent angiography of the retina, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and orbits, the diagnostics of optic nerve drusen becomes more informative. In this article we review the main current imaging techniques in the diagnostics of the optic nerve drusen.
The relevance of assessing the lesion of the visual analyzer with optic disc drusen and the possibility of identifying concomitant pathologies, increases with the introduction of the latest diagnostic techniques.In the S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution, Moscow, a patient, 50 years old, complaining of episodic blurred vision. The diagnosis revealed the drusen of the optic nerve head and concomitant congenital neurological pathology. The patient was consulted by a neurosurgeon with the aim of delivering a diagnosis and determining treatment tactics. The diagnosis was made: Arteriovenous malformation of the deep arteries of the sections of the left parietal lobe. After assessing the size of the arteriovenous malformation, its location in the functionally important area of the brain, it was decided to follow up the patient in dynamics
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