What criteria do you use to decide the duration of IV steroids in patients with optic neuritis?

Is it necessary to do a taper afterward and what would be the recommended tapering schedule/duration?

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This question has long gone unanswered because it is complicated. Short optic nerve segment enhancement (MS):In this situation, I do not routinely recommend steroid treatment. For the optic neuritis of multiple sclerosis, the Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial (Beck and Gal, PMID 18625951) clearly ...

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