If diagnosed with a brain tumor, a biopsy may be needed (surgery) as a first step in treatment. Brain tumors can sometimes be a form of laser treatment or radiation and often requires surgery. High blood pressure should be treated as an emergency at the hospital if it causes a papilledema.

The pseudotumor cerebri can be treated with repeated spinal taps to remove excess fluid or medication called acetazolamide (Diamox and other brand names). This medicine makes the body produce less CSF and that the central nervous system pressure back to normal. We recommend weight loss as this may be beneficial.

A few patients require surgery to help drain spinal fluid if no results are achieved with initial treatment. Because pseudotumor cerebri is a chronic (long) and can cause impaired vision, an important part of the treatment plan is the careful control of the ophthalmologist.

Many inflammatory diseases (including multiple sclerosis) can be improved with the use of anti-inflammatory agents, including steroid medication (prednisone or methylprednisolone) or other more specialized medicines.

Once identified and treated the cause of papilledema and that decreased the increased cerebrospinal fluid pressure, optic disc swelling gradually disappears in six to eight weeks. When a pressure increase requires prolonged treatment, as in pseudotumor cerebri, symptoms may take longer to disappear.

Prevention

Many of the causes of papilledema can not be prevented. Steps to prevent some causes of papilledema include:
- follow signs to the doctor to control high blood pressure and never discontinue taking the blood pressure medicine unless your doctor tells you to do so.
- stay physically fit and avoid obesity by exercising and following a diet low in fat.

When To Call a Professional

If you have a headache with nausea and vomiting, and unknown cause, it is essential that you contact your doctor immediately. It is particularly important that a physician evaluate these symptoms, a fever, high blood pressure or has started taking birth control pills or are pregnant.

Forecast

You could have a chronic mild papilledema for months or years and still not lose the vision significantly. However, once you start to lose vision, it can be become permanent within days or weeks and it requires emergency treatment.

Symptoms related to papilledema are caused by increased pressure and include headache and nausea with vomiting and a sound like a machine. Twenty-five percent of people with advanced papilledema also develop visual symptoms. Generally, the visual changes are recurring brief episodes lasting less than 30 seconds during which the vision turns gray or black, sometimes described as a veil which falls over the eyes.

Symptoms usually affect both eyes at the same time. These locks are often visually triggered by a change of position, as standing suddenly or may be caused by coughing or straining the chest or abdomen. Sometimes people may experience papilledema flashing lights, which often are seen as an arch. Over time, other visual changes occur, including decreased visual field with a blind spot over grade and eventually blindness if not treated properly the problem.

Diagnosis

The front end of the optic nerve is seen from the back of the eye area when your doctor or eye specialist look through the pupil with an ophthalmoscope. The rounded front end is just over 1.5 centimeters (just over half an inch). Normally, the front end of the nerve called the optic disc, has a rough outline and slightly dented. If the optical disc seems high and has an outer edge blur, your doctor can diagnose papilledema. The pressure inside the nerve can cause congestion of the draining vein. In addition, the minimum pulse usually seen in the veins of the eyes tend to disappear. When papilledema is severe, small reddish spots could be observed due to local bleeding or spots of color change on the retina due to the accumulation of particles or damaged retinal cells.

The physical examination will also include a visual field control. Papilledema causes enlargement of the blind spot in each eye near the nose and reduced peripheral vision (the edges). To control your field of vision, your doctor may compare your vision with it sitting in front of you and move your fingers in and out of your visual field. An ophthalmologist can examine more formally the visual fields using a grid to measure vision.

The findings show that you have a papilledema should be treated urgently. It is appropriate to an x-ray of the brain within 24 hours so you can quickly diagnose a brain tumor if it exists. These tests include a computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

If the radiograph shows no abnormality in the brain, most patients need a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) to measure cerebrospinal fluid pressure. The pseudotumor cerebri is a common cause of papilledema when the brain scan is normal.

The anatomy of the optic nerve is a sensitive indicator of problems within the brain. This nerve is a thick cord that connects the posterior of the eyeball and the retina to the brain. In this short journey between the brain and eye, cerebrospinal fluid bathes the entire surface of the optic nerve. This fluid protects the nerve from sudden movement. However, even slight increases in pressure of this fluid, due to brain swelling, can compress the optic nerve around its entire circumference. When this nerve is exposed to high blood pressure or swelling develops by itself, may protrude through the rear wall of the eyeball, causing papilledema.

Some important causes of increased pressure due to cerebrospinal fluid and brain tumors brain infections, such as brain abscess, meningitis or encephalitis. A significant proportion of people who are diagnosed with brain tumors have some signs of papilledema. An increase in pressure as a result of hemorrhage (bleeding) for high blood pressure can also cause papilledema.

A condition can raise blood pressure in the cerebrospinal fluid without associated swelling of the brain or ventricles. This condition, called pseudotumor cerebri or benign intracranial hypertension, occurs when the body produces too much cerebrospinal fluid. It is more common in obese women of childbearing age. The condition appears to be triggered when the body must adjust to hormonal changes such as pregnancy, the beginning of taking contraceptive tablet, the first menstrual period or menopause.

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1. First test
Once the exercise, switch to the other eye and repeat a few times.
- Grab a pencil and stretch out your arm toward the front.
- Cover up one eye with your other hand and arm moves laterally along with free eye pencil.
- You should arrive at about the height of the ear, where vision is blurred.
- Make a couple of rebounds slow, going from camp to clear blurred vision.
- Repeat a few times and switch to the other eye.
- Do the same but with movement up and down and diagonally.

2. Second exercise
Trains in sight with vertical displacements. Now even more difficult: with a pencil in each hand.
- Stretch one up and one down.
- It then passes the look of a pen to another in vertical displacement.

3. Third exercise
About aléjalo pencil and, without moving or tronoc head. With your arm straight, without moving the trunk or head.
- About the pencil to your nose without seeing everything twice (about 5 cm),
- Go back to zoom out and repeat this movement about twenty times.

1. What is it?
By comparing the eye with a camera in a normally sighted eye focuses the image on the retina but in the myopic eye the image is formed in front of the retina.This may be because the eye is too long or that the lens system is too powerful.

2. Types of myopia
There are basically two types of myopia:
- The simple myopia is present from birth and tends to stabilize in middle age without exceeding the 8 diopters
- Myopia opus that begins in childhood or early adulthood and is not stabilized until later.

3. Symptoms
A person with myopia has blurred distance vision and the patient can get some clarity to this vision if the eye winks.

4. Treatment
Its correction can be made by means of glasses, contact lenses or laser surgery.