Foster-Kennedy syndrome
MONDO:0001998Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names Foster-Kennedy syndrome yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
An eye disorder characterized by an insidious reduction in vision in one eye, accompanied by clinically significant papilledema in the fellow eye. The unilateral loss of vision and optic atrophy is due to compressive optic atrophy, which causes elevated intracranial pressure that leads to swelling in the fellow eye.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0001998), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of