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Optic neuropathy is a broad term, and can result from a variety of causes including:

genetic
- Leber hereditary optic neuropathy
compression / trauma
- optic nerve sheath meningioma
- progressive diaphyseal dysplasia
- shear injury
infiltration / neoplasm
- lymphoma
paraneoplastic
- collapsin response mediator protein-5 antibody
nutritional / toxic
- thiamine deficiency
- amiodarone toxicity
inflammation (optic neuritis)
- infection
- non-infective
vascular
- ischaemic optic neuropathy
  - non-arteritic-anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (NAION) most common
  - arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy almost always associated with Ischemic optic neuropathy
  - non-arteritic-posterior ischaemic optic neuropathy
  - arteritic-posterior ischaemic optic neuropathy
- central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO)
- central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO)

See also

optic neuritis

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+<li><a href="/articles/neuromyelitis-optica-spectrum-disorder">neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD)</a></li>
~~-<li><a title="Systemic lupus erythematosus (CNS manifestations)" href="/articles/systemic-lupus-erythematosus-cns-manifestations">systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)</a></li>~~
~~-<li><a title="Neurosarcoidosis" href="/articles/neurosarcoidosis">sarcoidosis</a></li>~~
-<li><a title="Chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuropathy (CRION)" href="/articles/chronic-relapsing-inflammatory-optic-neuropathy">chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuropathy (CRION)</a></li>
+<li><a href="/articles/systemic-lupus-erythematosus-cns-manifestations">systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)</a></li>
+<li><a href="/articles/neurosarcoidosis">sarcoidosis</a></li>
+<li><a href="/articles/chronic-relapsing-inflammatory-optic-neuropathy">chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuropathy (CRION)</a></li>
~~-<li><a href="/articles/central-retinal-vein-occlusion">central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO)</a></li>~~
+<li><a title="CRVO" href="/articles/central-retinal-vein-occulsion">central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO)</a></li>

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