[Current status and progress in diagnosis and treatments of pediatric optic neuritis].

Pediatric optic neuritis (ON) is different from its adult counterpart in terms of epidemiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, and prognosis. Although adult optic neuritis was well described in treatments by the Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial (ONTT), there is no universal agreement on the treatments in a pediatric population. Since there is an inadequate knowledge about pediatric ON in our nation, we compared the clinical manifestations of pediatric ON with its adult population, reviewed the existing understanding of the relationship between pediatric ON and various diseases of CNS, and summarized the current treatments, expecting to provide useful reference in clinic.