Visual recovery from optic atrophy following acute optic neuropathy in the fellow eye

Abstract

• The left eye of a 65-year-old male was blind due to optic atrophy and only seeing eye had also dry type age-related macular degeneration.
   An anterior ischemic optic neuropathy developed in the better seeing eye. Vision recovered in the blind eye in a short time after losing the better eye. Gaining some vision in a blind eye may be an adaptation of visual pathway in such patients.
• Key words: Optic atrophy, optic neuropathy, visual recovery