<p>This article has been adapted from Kevin Cornwell’s “My Patient Has Optic Nerve Pallor: What Do I Do?” which can be read online, with references and examples, at newgradoptometry.com. Atrophy to the optic nerve occurs when there is degeneration to the axons of the nerve. This results in recession and loss of the micro-capillary networks that supply the optic nerve.</p>

This article has been adapted from Kevin Cornwell’s “My Patient Has Optic Nerve Pallor: What Do I Do?” which can be read online, with references and examples, at newgradoptometry.com. Atrophy to the optic nerve occurs when there is degeneration to the axons of the nerve. This results in recession and loss of the micro-capillary networks that supply the optic nerve.

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