Sensitive Assessment of Acute Optic Neuritis by a New Digital Flicker Test (.pdf)

ON is primarily a clinical diagnosis but clinical tests with increased sensitivity, and tests which predict MS risk in the ON patients, are needed. The Aulhorn flicker test was shown in the 1980's to effectively diagnose acute ON1. The aim of this study was to examine the applicability of a new, digitalized version of the analog test for examination of acute optic neuritis (ON)

New, Diagnostic Flicker Test for Optic Neuritis Shows Dynamic Pattern Following Disease Onset

Optic neuritis (ON) is primarily diagnosed clinically, but diagnosis may be complicated especially in the case of recurrent disease. We present here the results of a new, digitalized version of the Aulhorn flicker test, the digital flicker test (DFT). The aim of this study was to examine the sensitivity of the DFT in ON and the pattern of DFT response during the course of ON and how this compared to standard visual evoked potentials (VEP)