Aqueous Humor Fluid filling the anterior and posterior chambers of the eye in front of the lens. The most common inflammatory arterial disease of the nervous system. Blindness can occur from Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in untreated cases. Prednisone is very effective treatment. Usually affecting the elderly, it is slightly more common in women.
Early symptoms are low grade fever, fatigue, depression, and headache.
The polymyalgia rheumatica syndrome of muscle and joint stiffness and pain predominantly in the shoulder girdle is sometimes associated. With treatment, early vision loss is usually reversible. Artery Blood vessel taking blood away from the heart to a tissue or organ. The central retinal artery branches from the ophthalmic artery itself a branch of the internal carotid artery . It pierces the inferomedial aspect of the optic nerve to reach the retina.