Full Description
This new edition contains concise practical and evidence-based answers to the most frequently asked questions posed during a consultation between ophthalmology and neuro-ophthalmology colleagues. It provides information basic enough for residents while incorporating expert pearls that even high-volume ophthalmologists will appreciate. Residents, fellows, and practicing physicians alike will benefit from the user-friendly casual format of the book containing expert advice from the leaders in the field of neuro-ophthalmology.
Key Features:
Updated content on all 49 cases from the previous edition plus one new case
Updated references based on most recent peer-reviewed publications
New figures, algorithms, diagrams, and tables that provide accurate and quick access to the most recent information
Contents
1 How Should a Childhood Optic Nerve Glioma Be Worked Up?
2 How Should a Meningioma of the Optic Nerve Sheath Be Managed?
3 When Should You Consider the Diagnosis of Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disease with Positive Aquaporin 4-IgG (AQP4+ NMOSD)?
4 How Should I Evaluate and Manage Suspected Optic Neuritis?
5 What Is the Treatment of Optic Neuritis?
6 What Is the Workup and Treatment for Neuroretinitis?
7 How Do You Evaluate and Treat Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy?
8 How Do You Differentiate Arteritic From Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy?
9 How Should I Treat Giant Cell Arteritis?
What Is the Evaluation of Traumatic Optic Neuropathy?
11 What Is the Evaluation and Management for Papilledema?
12 Is There a Difference in the Management of Pseudotumor Cerebri in Pregnancy?
13 What Is the Evaluation and Management of Low- and High-Flow Carotid Cavernous Fistulas?
14 How Do I Work Up and Manage an Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia?
15 What Is the Workup and Treatment of Myasthenia Gravis?
16 How Do You Manage Visual Loss in Thyroid Eye Disease?
17 When Do You Use Radiation or Steroids in Thyroid Eye Disease?
18 How Do You Manage Diplopia in Thyroid Eye Disease?
19 What Are the Evaluations and Treatments for Acquired Nystagmus?
20 What Is the Evaluation for Anisocoria?
21 How and When Should I Work Up Horner Syndrome?
22 What Should I Do With a Dilated Pupil?
23 What Is the Evaluation for Episodic Anisocoria?
24 How Do You Manage Toxic and Nutritional Optic Neuropathies?
25 What Are Visual Processing Defects and How Can I Recognize Them?
26 How Do I Manage Patients With Headache Syndromes Who Come to Me as an Ophthalmologist?
27 What Is the Evaluation of Optic Atrophy?
28 How Do I Treat a Child With Asymmetric Nystagmus?
29 What Is Opsoclonus and How Do I Manage It?
30 What Is Wernicke Encephalopathy and How Does It Affect the Eye?
31 How Do I Manage Postoperative Visual Loss After Nonocular Surgery?
32 How Do I Manage Transient Monocular Visual Loss in a Young, Otherwise Healthy Patient?
33 What Is the Evaluation for Transient Monocular Visual Loss in an Older Adult?
34 What Is the Evaluation for a Homonymous Hemianopia?
35 What Is the Evaluation for a Painful Third Nerve Palsy Without a Fixed and Dilated Pupil but With Anisocoria (Partial Pupillary Involvement)?
36 How Do You Manage an Isolated and Presumed Vasculopathic, Pupil-Sparing Third Nerve Palsy?
37 What Is the Appropriate Evaluation of a Fourth Nerve Palsy?
38 What Is the Appropriate Evaluation in a Patient Suspected of Having a Sixth Nerve Palsy?
39 How Do I Evaluate a Patient With Multiple Ocular Motor Cranial Nerve Palsies?
40 What Is Blepharospasm?
41 What Is Hemifacial Spasm?
42 How Do You Deal With A Patient Who Has Functional Visual Loss?
43 How Do You Diagnose and Manage Migraine Visual Aura without Headache?
44 How Do I Recognize Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy?
45 How Do I Manage an Orbital Apex Syndrome?
46 How Do I Evaluate and Manage Idiopathic Orbital Inflammatory Syndrome?
47 How should I evaluate and manage a carotid-cavernous fistula?
48 How Do I Evaluate and Treat Radiation Optic Neuropathy?
49 What Should I Do With a Seventh Nerve Palsy?
50 How to evaluate and manage Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein (MOG) Optic Neuritis
