Optic neuritis: a review on nosological classification

Optic neuritis refers to all inflammatory diseases in the optic nerve.It is one of the most common optic nerve diseases in neuro-ophthalmology,but also most likely to suffer in the middle-aged people.Currently,there are two main classifications of optic neuritis:according to anatomical site,optic neuritis was divided into retrobulbar neuritis,papillitis,optic perineuritis,and neuroretinitis; another based on the etiology,optic neuritis can be divided into the central nervous system inflammatory demyelinating disease of the optic nerve inflammation,infectious disease-related optic neuritis,and systemic autoimmune diseaserelated optic neuritis.At present,the etiology features of optic neuritis in China remains to be further characterized by large sample epidemiological studies. Key words: optic neuritis/diagnosis ;  nosology