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This book is a practical, symptom-based, 'how-to' guide to neuro-ophthalmology for all trainee and practising ophthalmologists, optometrists, and physicians whose practice includes patients with eye or brain issues. Each chapter focusses on a specific clinical symptom and includes an introduction to the clinical assessment of a symptom; an examination checklist; a management flowchart to be followed; clinical diagnostic criteria checklists; and further information on the diseases that can cause the symptom with a brief discussion of appropriate management. Features:- A practical and accessible handbook for the ophthalmologist, optometrist, or other physician without a specialist interest in neuro-ophthalmology.
- Simplifies a subject that is often a cause of litigation against practising ophthalmologists and exam failure for trainees and residents.
- Aids diagnosis in a field in which mistakes may lead to serious consequences, e.g. patients with brain tumours presenting with blurred or double vision.
- Uniquely guides the reader from presenting symptoms, through a series of simple but safe flowcharts and checklists, to the necessary tests, diagnosis, and timely treatment.
- The first chapter presents 20 'golden rules' to keep you and your patients out of trouble.
- Updates throughout the text include recent advances in diagnosis and treatment for conditions with improved pathophysiological insights; genetic aspects of several conditions and their impact on management; imaging and laboratory tests available for diagnosis of disorders.
- New self-assessment quizzes to consolidate everyday clinical skills or for exam preparation.
- More than 60 online videos demonstrate examination techniques as well as abnormal eye movements, eyelid problems and pupil abnormalities.
Table of Contents:- 1 Staying Out of Trouble
- 2 Neuro-ophthalmic History and Examination
- 3 Blurred Vision or Field Loss: Not Explained by Visible Ocular Disease—Optic Disc/s Normal, Swollen, Pale, or “Cupped”
- 4 Swollen Disc/s, Normal Vision
- 5 Transient Visual Loss
- 6 Double Vision
- 7 “Seeing Things”
- 8 Abnormal Movement or Orientation of the Visual World
- 9 Abnormal Eye Movements Without Visual Symptoms
- 10 Unequal Pupils
- 11 Ptosis
- 12 Facial Weakness or Spasm
- 13 Unexplained Eye Pain, Orbital Pain, or Headache
- Checklists
- Suggested Reading
- Index
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